Serbia's Law on the Election of Representatives (2000) stipulated that parliamentary mandates would be awarded to electoral lists (Article 80) that crossed the electoral threshold (Article 81), that mandates would be given to candidates appearing on the relevant lists (Article 83), and that the submitters of the lists were responsible for selecting their parliamentary delegations within ten days of the final results being published (Article 84). See Law on the Election of Representatives, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 35/2000, made available via LegislationOnline, accessed 28 February 2017.
Otvoreni Parlament indicates that he took his seat in the assembly at the time of its first sittings in January 2001. See DRUGO VANREDNO ZASEDANJE, 25.01.2001. (p. 4), Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 3 August 2017.
