Liberals "end up on the nose" as Guy warns

The overwhelming defeat of the opposition has exacerbated tensions in the administrative committee – the main decision-making body of the Liberals – with new calls for the resignation of President Michael Kroger.

This week, Greg Mirabella, member of the administrative committee, husband of former federal Liberal MP Sophie Mirabella, wrote to his colleagues to tell him that the party needed a new team at the top to fight against the federal elections.

Mr. Mirabella cited among his main concerns the loss of votes in the seats of the blue ribbon.

"This means that not only does our product stink, it also stinks with us," he wrote. "We can understand why voters in the suburbs of the eastern suburbs may have turned against us, but in Hawthorn and Brighton? Our own people do not love us enough to vote for us. "

Our own people do not love us enough to vote for us

Guy Mirabella

In a subsequent email, Mirabella said the party needed to change its name urgently.

"You should understand better than the maxim that in politics, perception is reality and perception is that Michael [Kroger] is the public face of the party and our party is almost at the end of its sentences. "

In response to Mirabella's e-mail, the party's treasurer, David Mond, attempted to present a no-confidence motion against the party's president and in his capacity as chairman of the executive committee.

"Whatever the personal differences around the table, we need to be one voice on this issue," said Mr. Mond. "I will say that for each one of you, it's a moment of truth."

However, it is understood that the motion has not been presented to the committee.

A liberal source said that he was "a little rich" as the Mirabellas "speak of brand damage".

Last night, the coalition was about to win only 26 of the 88 seats in the lower house of the Victorian Parliament. The obvious possibility that the Hawthorn MP, John Pesutto, could lose his seat devastated the party, considering that he was presented as a possible candidate for leadership.

Senior liberal sources confirmed that former opposition leader Matthew Guy had urged the administrative committee to avoid the "lynching," Mr. Kroger and state director Nick Demiris, saying that the party was to meet on Wednesday.

Mr. Guy also congratulated the team for their campaign effort, including what they described as an impressive advertising campaign, as well as one of the biggest volunteer and "ground game" successes that the party has organized in recent years.

But he was frank in describing what he saw as problems with the "liberal mark" and the general perception of the party by the electorate, which he said had suffered from the instability of leadership in August and Malcolm's dumping. Turnbull.

He told committee members that the party would soon disappear if it did not solve the problems of the liberal brand.

But Mr. Guy was "ineligible", according to an angry email launched Thursday by the defeated Liberal candidate for Albert Park Andrew Bond.

In his campaign report, Mr. Bond said that it had become "worrisome to find that Matthew Guy was indelible" during phone calls with electorate voters.

"After a few weeks of calls, I estimate that about one in ten would respond without questioning that she could never vote for the Liberal Party while Matthew Guy was at the head of the party, "he said.

Bond said that "the many scandals" and that Mr. Guy's past as Minister of Planning were regularly mentioned by voters.

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The federal leadership crisis was simply "the last nail in the coffin," Bond said after a misguided campaign with poorly crafted policies and messages.

"Would we have won if the federal leadership challenge did not happen? Probably not, because a lot of others went bad after the fall of leadership."

Mr Bond said that the opposition had lost because it had lost its appeal to a "hard core of our supporters".

"This group is made up of professional or retired employees and small, wealthy and wealthy business owners.

"However, they are also non-religious but not anti-religion, somewhat concerned about the environment but not the Greens, and compbadionate towards their peers, but not the warriors of social justice."

However, the bitterness in the federal Parliament since "made sure that, until the day of the elections, the idea that the Liberal Party was disconnected and dysfunctional was still a priority for many."

He warned that some of the voters who had told him that they would vote for state-level Liberals had made it clear that they would not vote for the Liberals in federal elections.

For the first time in my life, I do not vote for the Liberals.

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"The most commonly heard phrase last month during the pre-election session was:" For the first time in my life, I do not vote for the Liberals "".

The party is facing a deadly meeting of its public meeting on Friday night, during which MPs plan to present a no-confidence motion to key members of the Liberal leadership.

Earlier Thursday, Polwarth MP Richard Riordan on Thursday presented a scathing badessment of the loss in an interview with ABC, saying the party needed to lift female representation and consider introducing quotas. of gender.

"We need to expand our pool of candidates and, if necessary, have quotas to force it, anyway," Riordan said.