The man who was sacked as Indonesia's president in 2001 said Tuesday he is seeking a second chance to lead the country.

"I want to show that I'm capable of governing," Abdurrahman Wahid told reporters on the sidelines of an international conference of Islamic scholars.

Wahid has been nominated by the National Awakening Party, which he helped found, for the July 5 presidential election.

"I have faith in the election," said Wahid, who headed Indonesia's largest Islamic organization, the Nahdlatul Ulama, before being elected president in 1999.

Wahid said legislators had accused him of incompetence and dismissed him in July 2001 because they could not prove their accusations that he was engaged in corruption.

Wahid's erratic style of leadership and his penchant for controversy while he was president irked legislators.

MPs censured Wahid after a parliamentary commission accused him of complicity in the loss of funds from the state food agency Bulog but the case never went to court.

The practically-blind Wahid was sacked and replaced by his deputy Megawati Sukarnoputri. His attempts to hold on to power by declaring a state of emergency and dissolving parliament were ignored.