Public fascination with local political drama and scandals should not side-track focus from monitoring the government's ability to fulfil its election promises.

Speaking as a panellist at a forum organised by think-tank Institute of Democracy and Economic Affairs (Ideas) in Kuala Lumpur today, Center to Combat Corruption and Cronyism (C4) director Cynthia Gabriel pointed out that the public is generally more interested to discuss political scandals than government policies...