on
Red Square|left In October 2008 he was appointed Minister of Emergency Situations of South Ossetia. Bibilov was the presidential candidate for the
Unity Party in the
South Ossetian presidential election, 2011.
Leonid Tibilov was ultimately elected president after winning the
South Ossetian presidential election, 2012, which Bibilov did not participate in. 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. During his inauguration, delegations from the
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, the
Donetsk and
Lugansk People's Republics and
Russia were present. Bibilov supports
South Ossetia joining Russia, and has called for a referendum on the issue. 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. Bibilov was defeated by
Alan Gagloyev in the
2022 election.
Cabinet During his tenure as President, Bibilov's cabinet consisted of the following: == Sanctions ==