Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz has trouble in understanding why 40,000 people took to the streets recently to submit a memorandum calling for electoral reforms, to the King.

The minister is actually quite consistent in his lack of understanding especially when it comes to the right of assembly. Well, he had found it difficult to comprehend why 2,000 lawyers walked to Putrajaya to submit a memorandum on judicial reform to the PM.

Nazri displayed his sterling ignorance when he was asked in Parliament recently: "The opposition has won seats in the previous elections, especially in Kelantan, why are they calling for the Election Commission (EC) to be freer and fairer?"

The answer is rather simple if they do not press for an electoral reform, they may even lose all their seats in the coming general election due to the farce, flaws and fraud that has been and still is increasingly evident in the electoral system.