The NSW Liberal party has some soul-searching to do and a new leader to appoint after facing defeat in Saturday's election, where they lost several key seats.
Chris Minns is the new Labor Premier-elect.The Liberal Party will turn its focus to electing a new leader after a devastating loss in the NSW election and the immediate resignation of Dominic Perrottet.
"We were expecting a disaster tonight, were expecting to lose everything, but we can rebuild from some of the seats," he told the ABC.He insisted it was too early to discuss whether he would be a leadership contender."I have seen how demanding the job is. Let me tell you, Dom has put everything into this."
A murmur rose among the sparse crowd of party faithful at the Liberal election function as election analysts called a convincing Labor win shortly after 7pm.He arrived with wife Helen by his side and heaped praise on the man he said would make a fine 47th premier of NSW, urging people to get behind him whatever their political persuasion.One of the premier's long-term staffers said he felt dejected by the result.
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