Former opposition leader Matthew Guy was so disliked and the Liberals’ election campaign so negative Victorians had no reason to vote for them, according to the party president.
Greg Mirabella chose to compile his own report on the Liberals’ heavy loss at the 2022 state election rather than holding a formal post-mortem because he believed reviews were often ignored.And after conducting interviews with MPs and party officials, Mirabella didn’t hold back when completing his assessment., reveal Mirabella believes Guy was seen as a worse option when voters compared him to Daniel Andrews.
“Our media material in the final weeks gave voters nothing to vote for and no reason or moral permission to vote Liberal,” Mirabella’s report states. Labor was able to cushion the blow of the huge swings it suffered in Melbourne’s outer northern and western suburbs that it held by large margins, winning 56 seats in November – one more than theFormer senator and Victorian Liberal Party president Greg Mirabella.The Liberal Party lost further support in eastern Melbourne seats such as Glen Waverley, Bayswater and Box Hill, bringing into question how the party expects to win back once-traditional blue-ribbon Liberal seats.
“The statewide Coalition primary has dropped by 0.6 per cent. Labor’s has dropped by 6.2 per cent. We have had some great swings to us in the west and north of Melbourne – 15.1 per cent in Greenvale for example – but these have not resulted in wins, and the swing away from us in some traditional heartland has cost us seats,” Mirabella stated in his report.were held off across the state. No independents were successful at all.
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