During the 1905 football reform movement, Cranston was part of the reformist camp and proposed the abolition of professional coaches.

He then complained that neither Mr. Gorbachev or others in the reformist camp were taking the threat seriously enough.

In addition candidate hopefuls may have been disqualified for affiliation with leftist organisations, the reformist camp, or even President Ahmadinejad.

Lanskoi, the minister, had moved into the reformist camp and become reliant on Nikolai Miliutin.

Most of the sitting lawmakers rejected were from the reformist camp, which won more than 70 percent of the seats four years ago.

Still, these are uneasy times in the reformist camp.

This shift to the reformist camp does not appear to be an ideological epiphany for a Moscow-trained engineer who became party boss.

He was a supporter of President Mohammad Khatami's reform plans, and one of the most influential figures in the reformist camp after 1997.

A supporter of the reformist camp, Bogusławski created a repertoire that covered the matters he saw as most important to Poles.

But not Mr. Dehnamaki, who remained critical of both the conservative and reformist camps.