| Malaysian PM faces big test as tight poll looms | Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak looks through the window in his spacious office in the administrative capital of Putrajaya, and points to the foreign ministry on a nearby hill.
"They cheated the prime minister and occupied the highest spot," he jokes, in a reference to the 1990s when Malaysia moved its government from Kuala Lumpur.
Now, as election fever rises, in the multi-ethnic southeast Asian country of 28m, Mr Najib and his long-dominant United Malays National Organisation (Umno) could be upstaged by a far bigger force: the opposition Pakatan Rakyat coalition, which hopes to seize power in the most contested poll in the nation's history.
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