KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said he will dissolve parliament on Wednesday, paving the way for a long-anticipated general election within weeks that could be the closest his ruling coalition has faced in its 56-year rule."The king has accepted my request to dissolve parliament effective April 3," Najib said in a live television address from the administrative capital Putrajaya.Najib's National Front coalition lost its two-thirds parliamentary majority for the first time in 2008 elections and faces a confident three-party opposition alliance led by former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim.
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