Outgoing minister Joe Francis has unleashed a scathing post-mortem review on where his party got it so wrong to lose Saturday's election in a landslide to WA Labor.
Mr Francis is on the verge of losing the seat of Jandakot, trailing almost 500 votes behind his rival, Labor candidate Yaz Mubarakai.
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Joe Francis slams Liberal Party election performance
Liberal MP Joe Francis' open and honest interview with Gareth Parker on 6PR.
On Tuesday afternoon Mr Francis - an ex-Royal Australian Navy submarine officer - conceded defeat.
He tweeted: "Congradulations (sic) to my friend Yaz Mubarakai. It has been a privilege to serve the people of Jandakot and I wish him all the best in the job."
Congradulations to my friend Yaz Mubarakai. It has been a privilege to serve the people of Jandakot and I wish him all the best in the job.
— Joe Francis (@JandakotJoe) March 14, 2017
Speaking to Radio 6PR's Mornings program with Gareth Parker on Tuesday, the Liberal heavyweight called the inner workings of the outgoing Barnett government "dysfunctional" as he publicly aired his grievances, admitting the party should have had the guts to replace Colin Barnett as leader.
"All of the planets aligned against us, many of them our own doing for the massive tide that came in," he said.
"Firstly longevity of government and [secondly] I guess a disdain, rightly or wrongly, amongst the voters for the premier personally.
"I don't know if [changing leaders] would have saved the government, but it would have saved a lot of seats, I think that [Barnett] was a major factor why people voted against us."
Mr Francis also claimed the decision to sell part of Western Power was "profoundly unpopular".
"I had people say to me as recently as the day before the election, 'I want to build Roe 8, I don't want to sell Western Power, what am I meant to do?'," he said.Â
The broken promises, including one to build a railway line to Ellenbrook and MAX light rail, also hit the party hard, according to Mr Francis.
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"The greatest ingredient in any democracy is trust between the people and its government and that was nowhere near where it should have been," he said.
"If you get these things wrong you have to at least have the decency to say to the public, 'I am sorry, we got it wrong', and that never happened for eight-and-a-half years on any of the commitments we failed to deliver."
Mr Francis has previously indicated he would consider leading the party after Mr Barnett returns to the back bench.
Sportsbet odds have outgoing deputy premier Liza Harvey as firm favourite to replace Mr Barnett at $1.15, while Mr Francis was second favourite on $5.Â