He has served three terms in the National Assembly of Serbia, been a state secretary in the Serbian government, and been an assistant mayor of Kragujevac.
Gojković's POKS group ceased to exist in 2022, and the following year Čikiriz launched a local political movement called Kragujevac the Capital–Serbia the Kingdom.
His ancestors were supporters of the Karađorđević dynasty in the nineteenth century, and for twenty days during World War II Draža Mihailović kept his military headquarters in the house of Čikiriz's grandmother.
)[8] The SPO contested the 2008 Serbian parliamentary election as part of the For a European Serbia (ZES) alliance led by the Democratic Party (DS).
[9][10] The overall results of the election were inconclusive, but ZES ultimately formed a coalition government with the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), and the SPO supported the administration.
[23] The SPO split in 2017, and a new party called the Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia (POKS) was established under Žika Gojković's leadership.
Čikiriz joined the POKS, saying that its founders were dissatisfied with Vuk Drašković's continued leadership of SPO but did not want to attempt a disruptive takeover of that party.
Čikiriz supported this decision, describing both Mihailović's Chetniks and the Yugoslav Partisans as having been anti-fascist forces in World War II.
(The city's other assistant mayors were appointed in September, but Čikiriz was required to wait until the end of his term as a state secretary before he could take office.
[33] In May 2021, he introduced a contract valued at seven million dollars to be spent on financing and co-financing projects sponsored by the city's different religious communities.
[35][36][37][38] On 28 December 2021, the group centered around Mihailović formally expelled both Gojković and Čikiriz from the POKS, a decision that they in turn rejected as invalid.
[39][40][41] Gojković's POKS group contested the 2022 Serbian parliamentary election in an alliance with Dveri, and Čikiriz received the twelfth position on their combined electoral list.
[44] Čikiriz launched a new political movement in late 2023 called Kragujevac the Capital–Serbia the Kingdom, which contested the local election in an alliance with the Russian Party (RS).