He received the eighty-first position on the Radical Party's list for the 2000 Serbian parliamentary election, held later in the year, in which the entire country was counted as a single constituency.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 23. децембра 2000. године и 10. јануара 2001. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (1 Српска радикална странка – др Војислав Шешељ), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 2 July 2021. The party won twenty-three seats, and he was not given a mandate.PRVA KONSTITUTIVNA SEDNICA, 22.01.2001., Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 7 December 2021. (From 2000 to 2011, Serbian parliamentary mandates were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than to individual candidates, and it was common practice for mandates to be assigned out of numerical order. Šarović could have been included in his party's delegation despite his list position, though in fact he was not.)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. During this period, he served as leader of the Radical Party's municipal board in Stari Grad."Serbian Radical party members arrested over anti-DOS stickers, says Seselj," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European - Political, 12 April 2001 (Source: Beta news agency, Belgrade, in Serbo-Croat 0907 gmt 12 Apr 01).
