5 politcal parties that risk going extinct

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Of these, only Avoda has a chance to die. The Bloc and Fianna Fail are in no danger. I can think of many other parties in more danger than either of those two.

What's said of UCR is just as true of the Peronists... and has been true for decades for both of them. If they've nominally survived this long, they might well do so for another century.

The only party in real danger of disappearing is Israel's Labour.

Indeed. Argentina has no real political parties per se, and other parties are no different to how they described UCR.

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The Israeli Labour Party is gonna be gone. The Kadima Party (Fmr Likud members) is the new liberal of Israel. Even though fmr Likud people make it up, the Likuds who make it up are liberals, and moderates.

But, either way I don't like Israel's electoral system.

Also, The GOP should at least be in the top ten,if not 5.

Stop acting as if you understand Israeli politics since you don't.

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This is an article by Foreign Policy Magazine that I thought I would share.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/files/story4994.php

I suppose the french PS is one of these 5 parties... sigh...

I thought the same when the returns came in for the European election.
Hopefully they don't field Royal... she's a total nut job.

The PS is not dying anytime soon. Anybody who thinks so is deranged.

French socialism is just too entrenched of an ideology and concept. It didn't die in 1968 or 1969. The PS itself didn't die in 1992-1993, 1994 or 2002. They're certainly in a bad state, especially because they're an opposition party, but they're not on their deathbed, sadly.

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Berlusconi's PDL will be an interesting case to look at when Il Cavaliere himself dies (politically and/or personally, which may be the same...).

Indeed. Though it's not only the PdL, which is nothing more than Berlusconi's personal machine filled with first-class political nonentities and/or idiots (just look at the PdL candidate in the Florence local election this month, lol), but a lot of other parties. The Second Republic has become a party system based around one man - Berlusconi. The parties either oppose him or support him. When Berlusconi disappears, the PD could be threatened if Berlusconi's disappearance means the end of the Second Republic and a return to a sane ideological party system. Then you would obviously have a right-wing non-Berlusconi party which could undoubtedly include the DCs now gone to the PD/Italia dei Valori and a left-wing party (along with the usual irrelevancies, Communists, fascists and so forth).

And Vlaamse Belang ?

Most of Vlaams Belang's lost support has gone to the N-VA or Dedecker's list. I think (and hope) that Dedecker's good days are over and the N-VA could obviously lose votes. Anyways, Flemish nationalism has only been getting stronger these days, although maybe slightly less Nazi.

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The BQ and FF will die when Quebec stops being different and people forget the Civil War (in other words, never).

While it is true that there is no majority for independence in Quebec (if there ever was one), you still have 35-40% who favour independence, and these people are not voting for Pierre Trudeau's party, the Redneck We Hate French People Alliance, or the NDP (the left in Quebec being quasi-exclusively nats). The best way for the Bloc to survive is to keep that independence talk in the background for a few years, while not promising a referendum and getting around the topic by saying they'll call one "when the time is right (aka, never) but make "fighting for Quebec interests" their main credo. That credo always works to marvel. In other words, become like the CiU in Catalonia (and not ERC).