Soon however,the parliament of South Ossetia declared the elections invalid.[2]Leonid Tibilov was ultimately elected president after winning the South Ossetian presidential election,2012,which Bibilov did not participate in.[1] In June 2014 he was elected as the president of the parliament of South Ossetia. He is currently the head of the United Ossetia party,which nominated him for their candidate to the South Ossetian presidential election,2017.[3] Bibilov won the election in the first round by getting 54.8% of the vote and took office as the 4th president of South Ossetia on 21 April 2017.[4][5] During his inauguration,delegations from the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic,the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics and Russia were present.[6]
One of the controversies of Bibilov's late tenure would be the Ministry of Construction's construction of a gym for the secondary school of Tsinagari. The School's director,former Member of Parliament Lasko Gussoev was able to bring the issue to national prominence stating that the Ministry of Construction built the gym,but did not install a transformer or other electoral components rendering the gym inoperable. It would take over 2 years of Gussoev's lobbying and significant media coverage before the gym was completed.[10]
In September 2015,he was included in the sanctions list of Ukraine. Bibilov was recognized as a person who creates "real and/or potential threats to national interests,national security,sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine." Bibilov probably fell under this definition because of repeated visits to the unrecognized DPR and LPR,as well as to Crimea.[13]
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