Malaysia’s Najib fires starting gun for tense election race

By Stuart Grudgings KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian Top Minister Najib Razak dissolved parliament on Wednesday, paving the way in which for a normal election expected this month which may be probably the most carefully contested his ruling coalition has confronted in its fifty six-yr rule. Najib faces a confident opposition alliance led by way of former deputy top minister Anwar Ibrahim and is underneath severe pressure to revive his ruling coalition's two-thirds majority that it misplaced for the primary time in a disastrous 2008 poll. …