INTERVIEW Many have likened Minister in Prime Minister's Department Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz to a cat with nine lives.

After all, at 56, he did survive three prime ministers in his 11 years (and counting) as federal minister, on top of one parliamentary term as a deputy minister.

And almost every time there is a cabinet reshuffle, political observers are almost sure that the four-term MP will be dropped having been one of the most outspoken politicians of his generation, sometimes at his party's peril.