[5] On 13 November 1999, eighteen groups came together to form the "Council for Coordinating of 2nd of Khordad Front" (Persian: شورای هماهنگی جبهه دوم خرداد) with the aim of laying down a unified reformist strategy.

[2] The coalitions's namesake, 2 Khordad 1376, is the date of Mohammed Khatami's landslide victory in the 1997 Iranian presidential election according to the Solar Hijri calendar.

The Council for Coordinating the Reforms Front declared that it was not supporting any of the incumbent councilors in Tehran, making an issue of compromise on a unified electoral list.

[9] After many of the coalition's candidates were disqualified for the 2004 parliamentary elections by the Guardian council, reformist MPs held a sit-in protest in the Islamic Consultative Assembly.

The Executives of Construction Party supported Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution of Iran Organization endorsed the Participation Front candidate Mostafa Moeen.

On the anniversary of the 1979 Iranian revolution, they issued a statement, saying "We will show all of the small-minded people who sit on the thrones as rulers, and label any opposition as tools of foreign enemies, the fate of single-voiced [autocratic] systems and establishments ... We come to scream on behalf of the political prisoners, most of whom were present in the 1357 [1979] revolution and tell them [the authorities] that in lieu of imprisonments and violence against the people, you must return to the fundamentals and the original values".

[23] While the council's position was interpreted as an "election boycott" by some, Khatami unexpectedly cast his vote in the rural Damavand County, despite the fact he lives in Tehran, to "keep the windows to reformism open.

"[24] In the 2013 Iranian presidential election, the council endorsed Hassan Rouhani after Khatami convinced Mohammad Reza Aref to withdraw from the race.