KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 24 ― Pakatan Harapan’s selection of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as its prime minister-designate if it wins the general election is unfeasible since the convicted PKR de facto leader cannot hold the post, PAS secretary-general Datuk Takiyuddin Hassan said.

Local daily Utusan Malaysia reported Takiyuddin as saying that PAS also discussed the matter yesterday and had maintained that any decision made must be realistic.

“This means that in the current circumstances that Anwar is in, we can’t make a conclusive decision that he’ll be prime minister,” Takiyuddin was quoted saying in Kota Baru, Kelantan.

“We must live in the real world,” the Islamist opposition party leader added.

A new opposition coalition called Pakatan Harapan, comprising PKR, DAP and Parti Amanah Negara, was announced Tuesday, with parliamentary opposition leader Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail saying that Anwar is their choice as prime minister should they win the next general election.

The Federal Court convicted last February Anwar of sodomy and sent the 67-year-old to prison for five years. The conviction disqualified him as MP and prevents him from contesting the next general election due by 2018.