The coming elections apparently maintain the usual competition pattern – Labor, Likud, Centrist Party and all the small parties – but this time it seems that we are facing a tremendous change: for the first time in history, the Centrist Party ("Kadima") has extremely good chances of claiming the helm. The Likud is on the verge of collapse – and the Labor Party (parts of its political platform, as mentioned, having been adopted by Arik Sharon) fails to keep its voters, who are drifting, as they usually do, towards the Centrist Party.
The party system continues to erode and deteriorate – a process which began during the 1977 upheaval – and it is still impossible to discern renewed party deployment, from an organizational or ideological point of view. This type of a change does not transpire over night and perhaps only in the next elections will we be able to perceive this transformation.
