Alla Aleksandrovna Dzhioyeva (Джиоты Алыксандыры чызг Аллæ; Алла Александровна Джиоева (born August 23, 1949) is a South Ossetia

South Ossetia

South Ossetia or Tskhinvali Region is a disputed region and partly recognized state in the South Caucasus, located in the territory of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the former Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic....

n politician, who served as the Education Minister in 2002–2008 and contested the 2011 presidential election

South Ossetian presidential election, 2011

Presidential elections were held in South Ossetia on 13 November 2011. A referendum was held on the same day. A run-off was held on 27 November 2011, but its results were invalidated by the Supreme Court of South Ossetia. A new election will be held on 25 March 2012.-Candidates:Incumbent president...

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The Supreme Court found that Dzhioyeva illegaly interfered in the elections, and barred her from the additional elections (annuling the past elections).

2011 presidential election

The first round of the 2011 presidential election took place on November 13 with Dzhioyeva running against 10 other candidates, including Anatoliy Bibilov, who has been supported by the incumbent president Eduard Kokoity

Eduard Kokoity

Eduard Dzhabeyevich Kokoity is the de facto President of South Ossetia.-Early life:Eduard Kokoity was born on 31 October 1964 in Tskhinvali, in the Georgian SSR, a part of the Soviet Union at the time. Kokoity was a member, and champion, of the Soviet Union's national wrestling team...

 and the Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

n government. Bibilov and Dzhioyeva secured 25.44% and 25.37% of the votes respectively and advanced to the runoff

Two-round system

The two-round system is a voting system used to elect a single winner where the voter casts a single vote for their chosen candidate...

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The second round took place on November 27. According to the preliminary results, Dzhioyeva secured 56.74% of the votes, while Bibilov received 40%. At that point, the South Ossetian Supreme Court

Supreme court

A supreme court is the highest court within the hierarchy of many legal jurisdictions. Other descriptions for such courts include court of last resort, instance court, judgment court, high court, or apex court...

 ordered the Central Electoral Commission not to publish the results, acting on Bibilov's complaint of electoral fraud

Electoral fraud

Electoral fraud is illegal interference with the process of an election. Acts of fraud affect vote counts to bring about an election result, whether by increasing the vote share of the favored candidate, depressing the vote share of the rival candidates or both...

. On November 29, the court annulled the election and barred Dzhioyeva from running in the next one.

Nevertheless, Dhzioyeva declared herself president-elect

President-elect

An -elect is a political candidate who has been elected to an office but who has not yet been sworn in or officially taken office. These may include an incoming president, senator, representative, governor and mayor.Analogously, the term "designate" An -elect is a political candidate who has been...

and formed a state council.