Makassar – In a highly anticipated move the People's Conscience (Hanura) Party officially named Wiranto, its leader and founder, as its presidential candidate at the party's three-day executive meeting held in the South Sulawesi capital.

"I accept and am ready for the nomination," former Indonesian Military chief Wiranto said in his acceptance speech to the cheers of regional party representatives.

A party needs at least 112 House of Representatives seats, or 25 percent of popular votes in the April legislative election, to contest the presidential election in July.

Wiranto has long argued that the electoral threshold law restricts citizens' right to run for presidency. The party has vowed to continue its fight at the Constitutional Court to revoke the ruling.