KUALA LUMPUR, March 2 — PKR is seeking a personal meeting with Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia to get the Dewan Rakyat speaker’s nod for its jailed leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to attend Parliament’s first meeting of the year next week.

Sungai Petani MP Datuk Johari Abdul, who also heads PKR’s parliamentary secretariat, said today that he will meet with Pandikar sometime before March 9 when the lower Parliament house is scheduled to convene.

“They have confirmed that they received the letter,” Johari said, referring to the Dewan Rakyat speaker.

“What will happen now, the decision, is in the hands of Tan Sri (Pandikar),” he added.

Johari added that he is confident that Anwar will be allowed to attend Parliament as it is clearly inscribed in the Federal Constitution under Article 48 that as long as the royal pardon has yet to be finalise, Anwar is still an MP and the federal opposition leader.

“My action is in line with Article 48 of the Federal Constitution which was validated by Tan Sri Yang di-Pertua Dewan Rakyat himself that Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is still a member of Parliament and the federal opposition leader in the Malaysian Parliament,” he said.

“As we know the Federal Constitution supersedes any law of the land... So he’ll be there.”

Anwar was reelected to the Permatan Pauh constituency in the 2013 general elections but convicted and sentenced by the country’s apex court to five years in jail for sodomy on February 10.

However, Pandikar has announced the 67-year-old remains the Penang constituency’s representative pending the outcome of his application for a royal pardon.

PKR claimed on Wednesday that Anwar has the right to attend Parliament as a lawfully elected lawmaker.