Those barred included 87 reformists in the current Parliament.
Reformists in government are trying to argue that France is open for business.
Muslim reformists in 19th-century Tunisia dismissed such traditions as demeaning and superstitious.
The reformists in Teddy Roosevelt's administration in Washington were just as unhelpful.
Reformists in the leadership, led by the party secretary, Zhao Ziyang, tried to find an accommodation.
In his speech, Koolhaas hinted to reformists in the audience that the building was, in fact, politically subversive.
Promising to be a prolonged spectacle, it was launched with a parade of scores of prominent reformists in prison garb.
His regime was struggling to retain legitimacy amongst his own followers, most of it lost to political reformists in Tehran.
"The fight against spiritual pollution was not really against me, but against reformists in the Communist Party," he explained.
That election sparked a wave of protests by predominantly young reformists in what was variously named the Green Revolution or the Persian Awakening.
Fresh from running a bank in his home town of Nizhny Novgorod, and supported by reformists in government, Mr Brevnov bravely started to clean the books.
