In this capacity, he was serving as interim president of the Republic of Macedonia from 4 October 1995 to 10 January 1996 in the sick absence of Kiro Gligorov after the assassination attempt on him.

In 1999 he was a candidate for President of the Republic of Macedonia of the Liberal Democratic Party, but he did not qualify for the second round.

[6] At the end of 2006, he proposed a law to exclude Yugoslav secret police informants from holding public office.

[8] Andov was the president of the Permanent Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights of the Macedonian Assembly from 2002 to 2006.

[10] After his retirement,[11] he authored the following books: "На мој начин" (My own way), "Од мој агол" (From my angle), "Патувањата на далечниот исток - Ирак" (Travels in the Far East - Iraq), "Ставот и Љубовта" (Attitude and Love), "Кицо американецот" (Kiko the American), "Приказната на Марија" (Maria's story), "Успеси и заговори" (Successes and conspiracies), "Јосип Броз Тито и распаѓањето на Југославија" (Josip Broz Tito and the breakup of Yugoslavia), "Драматичната 1991 година" (The dramatic year 1991), "1992 – година на опасни ризици" (1992 - a year of dangerous risks), "До атентатот и по него" (To the Assassination and After It).

[12] On 21 March 2019, the Skopje Basic Court temporarily banned the sale of his book "To the Assassination and After It", after the former minister of internal affairs Ljubomir Frčkoski filed a lawsuit for defamation.

[16][17] In a television debate show, in November 2020, he opined: "The Macedonian people, nor the politicians, must not accept anything that indicates that Macedonia and Bulgaria have the same history.