[1][2] Vasiljević led a protest of the Association of Disabled Veterans in November 2001, demanding that the Yugoslavian government pay overdue allowances and increase funding for military invalids.
In advance of the 5 May meeting, Vasiljević said that its founding members would be "the first company of the Christian militia in uniform, made up of experienced war veterans from about thirty Serbian towns.
[12] When the guard was formed, Vasiljević was quoted as saying, "The struggle of the Serbian people for the right to live in these areas, free, proud and in the spirit of Christianity, has been going on for fifteen years.
"[14] Although the guard received attention in the international media,[15] it was not a significant factor in the events surrounding Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence, and it ceased to exist shortly thereafter.
The Movement of Veterans of Serbia continued its association with the Socialist Party in the 2008 parliamentary election, and Vasiljević appeared in the fifteenth position on the SPS's coalition list.
The overall results of the election were inconclusive, and after extended negotiations the For a European Serbia (ZES) alliance led by the Democratic Party formed a new coalition government with the Socialists.
[18][19] Shortly after his appointment, he suggested that more than one hundred thousand women could be brought to Serbia from Russia and other Eastern European nations and from Southeast Asia to marry Serbian farmers.
[25] The PVS's alliance with the Socialist Party broke down in 2009, and Vasiljević was removed as a state secretary in September of that year at the SPS's initiative.
Rasim Ljajić, the minister of labour and social policy, welcomed Vasiljević's departure and said that he had wanted to fire him much sooner.
For his part, Vasiljević said, "I guess I got fired because I talked a lot against the government, which did nothing to help the veteran population, except send the police to remove them from the streets.
[34] In December 2023, Vasiljević and Belgrade's interim mayor Aleksandar Šapić unveiled the Monument to the Victims of the Wars and Defenders of the Fatherland 1990–99 in a park at Hajduk Veljkov venac.