[1] Božić was given the 123rd position on the Democratic Party of Serbia's electoral list in the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election.
[7] He appeared in the thirty-first position on a coalition list of the DSS and New Serbia (NS) in the 2008 provincial election.
[9] The DSS won three seats in Ruma in the 2004 Serbian local elections, and Božić became one of his party's delegates in the municipal assembly.
The far-right Serbian Radical Party (SRS) won a significant plurality victory in Ruma and afterward formed a coalition government with the DSS.
The SRS–DSS coalition refused to cede power, leading to a chaotic situation in which both sides claimed to be the municipality's legitimate government.