One sign of change is that some senior politicians have broken with the establishment by founding a reformist faction within the ruling party.

Methodism was originally a reformist faction within the Church of England and was not intended to be a separatist movement or Church.

Although Fraga was a member of the reformist faction of the Franco regime, he supported an extremely gradual transition to democracy.

Fraga established himself as one of the more prominent members of a reformist faction in the government who favoured opening up the regime from above.

CGIL remained the union of the communists, the socialists and the laic and reformist factions.

The Christian Church was also opposed to the amendments, as was the reformist faction of the Muslim Brotherhood.

He was associated with the reformist faction of the Hungarian communist party.

By this time, Gül had apparently moderated his views and was reportedly considered to be part of the Virtue Party's reformist faction.

The Russian Revolution of 1917 fractured most European parties between their revolutionary and reformist factions, which had already happened in the Netherlands.

Considered to be close to the more reformist factions of the PS, and the first to sign with "patronat".