Yes, but being secular isn't enough to win, either on your own or with a coalition, in Palestine. The Mahmoud Abbas faction basically allied itself with Tel Aviv and Washington, and people could see that, and that's on top of the Fatah's notorious financial corruption.
Reformists have lost favor in Iran, also because being secular (or rather relatively more secular than the other candidates) alone can't win people any more. A majority of Iranians have gotten tired of their neoliberal economic program, though at least half of them do love cultural and social liberalization brought about in the Khatami era. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>