Following the election of Alan Gagloev as President of South Ossetia, she has served as the chairwoman of the ruling Nykhaz party since February 2023.
[1] Zita Besayeva was born in 1976 in Tskhinval then in the South Ossetian AO which was part of the Georgian SSR, a member republic of the Soviet Union.
She graduated from the South Ossetian State University as part of their class of 1998 with a degree in history.
[1] In 2016 she lobbied for the creation of a Constitutional Court, to give the judicial branch of the Republic actual power.
[2] While in parliament she would serve as the head of the commission on compliance with regulations and won re-election in the 2019 South Ossetian parliamentary election.