The 50-year-old received the support of the two ruling centre-right parties - the Slovenian Democratic Party led by Prime Minister Janez Janzsa and the Christian Democrat New Slovenia party.
Zver is the second official presidential candidate. Incumbent President Danilo Tuerk submitted to the State Election Commission a month ago a list of 13,000 citizen signatures since he is running as a nonparty candidate.
Former PM Borut Pahor is expected to submit his candidacy next week.
The deadline for submitting the candidacies is next Wednesday.
Zver said he unreservedly supported structural reforms and the austerity measures moved by the incumbent government.