Lyudvig Chibirov

Цыбырты Людвиг
Людвиг Чибиров1st President of South OssetiaIn office
27 November 1996 – December 18, 2001Prime MinisterValeriy Hubulov (acting)
Aleksandr Shavlokhov
Merab Chigoev
Dmitry SanakoyevPreceded byPosition establishedSucceeded byEduard KokoityChairman of the Supreme SovietIn office
1994 – 27 November 1996Prime MinisterFeliks Zassiev
Vladislav Gabarayev
Valeriy Hubulov (acting)Preceded byPosition establishedSucceeded byPosition abolishedChairman of the State NyhasIn office
17 September 1993 – 1994Prime MinisterOleg Teziev
Gerasim Khugayev
Feliks ZassievPreceded byTorez KulumbegovSucceeded byPosition abolished Personal detailsBorn (1932-11-19) 19 November 1932 (age 91)
Tskhinvali, South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast, Georgian SSR, USSRPolitical partyIndependent

Lyudvig Alekseyevich Chibirov (Ossetian: Цыбырты Алексейы фырт Людвиг Tseberte Alêksêye fert Lyudvig, Georgian: ლუდვიგ ჩიბიროვი, Russian: Лю́двиг Алексе́евич Чи́биров; born November 19, 1932) was the Chairman of the Parliament and later, following inaugural elections the first president of South Ossetia. Born in 1932, Chibirov is a former member of the South Ossetian Parliament. Prior to the elections in 1996, he had been South Ossetia's head of state since 1993. When the post of Chairman of the Parliament was abolished in favor of the presidency, Chibirov became the first occupant of the new office.

During the 1996 elections, he received 65% of the vote compared with former Prime Minister Vladislav Gabaraev, who advocates South Ossetia's secession from the Republic of Georgia and its unification with North Ossetia in Russia, won about 20%. Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze blasted the elections calling them "unlawful."

In the next elections in 2001, the 69-year-old Chibirov received less than 20% of the votes, while Stanislav Kochiev came in second with 25%, and the 38-year-old Eduard Kokoity (Kokoyev) won with more than 48% of the vote.

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Political offices
Preceded by Torez Kulumbegov	Head of State of South Ossetia 1993–2001	Succeeded by Eduard Kokoity
Preceded by Torez Kulumbegov	Chairman of the Supreme Council 1993–1996	Succeeded by Kosta Georgievich Dzugaev
Preceded by position established	President of South Ossetia 1996–2001	Succeeded by Eduard Kokoity