[2][3][4] Ikoev stated that he ran as an independent to promote bi-partisanship and that he would support "any party" and "any faction" if it was in the best interest of the South Ossetian people and his constituents.
[5] Following the sacking of Uruzmag Dzhagayev as Prosecutor General of South Ossetia due to his role in the Murder of Inal Djabiev, Bibilov chose Sochi based Vitaly Savchenko as his replacement.
[6] However, in a rare instance of opposition, Parliament rejected Savchenko's nomination to the post due to his lack of South Ossetian citizenship.
[6] Ikoev, alongside vice-speaker Peter Gasssiev, dramatically walked out of parliament and abstained, which allowed the rejection vote to narrowly pass.
[6] In December 2022 Ikoev was on the committee that implemented the integration of South Ossetia's tariffs to be in accordance with the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), despite not officially being a member of the EEU, by implementing its tariff rates the South Ossetian government hopes to open up trade to other countries,[a] and reduce its dependence on Russia, which accounts for 95% of all imports into South Ossetia.