Liberal MP Richard Riordan calls for gender quotas in parties

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 arise? Probably not, because many other problems have occurred after the fall of management," Bond said.

However, the bitterness in the federal Parliament since the day she "ensured that, until the day of the elections, many believe that the Liberal Party is disconnected and dysfunctional."

He warned that some of the voters who told him to vote Liberal at the state level had made it clear that they would not vote in the next federal election.

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

He also criticized the party's campaign software, called i360, claiming that time was running out to call people who would have already decided how they would vote.

"We were calling members of the Liberal Party, and we knew the voters ALP and Green, and we called them several times in 2018."

Communication with the campaign headquarters has been slow, Mr Bond said: "The campaign documents, such as letters and DLs, took weeks and sometimes months to be completed and approved."

It is understood that Matthew Guy attended a meeting of the Victorian Liberal Administrative Committee on Wednesday night and defended the performance of Liberal Party President Michael Kroger and Director Nick Demiris.

At the meeting it was made clear that neither Mr Kroger nor Mr Demiris would resign, which could exacerbate internal tensions, with many insiders calling for radical change from the top.

The committee commissioned a review of the results from Tony Nutt, a member of the Liberal Party, former advisor to Prime Minister John Howard and Prime Minister Ted Baillieu.

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Mr. Bond's attack comes when a re-elected Liberal MP urged his party to consider the introduction of gender quotas and criticized the lack of support offered to female candidates and MPs.

Polwarth MP Richard Riordan easily defeated his opponents to sit in southwest Victoria.

In a scathing interview during an interview with ABC on Thursday, Riordan said the party needed to lift women's representation and consider setting up women's quotas, as the party said. asked MP Julia Banks on Tuesday when she resigned from the Liberal Party.

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

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"One of the central problems we have in the Liberal Party, whether it's a problem or a concept, is the Liberal Party, which has a hard time setting quotas or [having] everything that tells people how to vote.

"It's the only thing that always sends our members into anaphylaxis: they do not want to be told what to do."

Mr. Guy unveiled two years ago his intention to increase by 10% each poll the female representation of the party, to reach 37% in 2018 and almost half by 2022.

However, he resisted suggestions that the party should impose quotas to offset the gender imbalance.

The proportion of liberal women sitting in parliament seems to have stagnated, with only three seats in the lower house out of 18 expected to be occupied by women parliamentarians.

Two other women, Louise Staley at Ripon and Heidi Victoria at Bayswater, are waiting to know if they will keep their seat as they progress.

Mr. Riordan agreed that women's representation was an "exclusive" issue for the Liberal Party, explaining his reluctance to support candidates in preselection battles and members of Parliament.

"We need to put in place mechanisms that really value the people who raise their hands and we support them, and that's what we do not do," he said.