He received the seventh position on the Radical Party's electoral list for Novi Sad in the 1992 Serbian parliamentary election.
Ostojić's position on the list did not give him the automatic right to a mandate, but he was nonetheless included in the party's delegation and took his seat when parliament met in early 1993.
In Ostojić's accounting of events, the prosecutor sought to persuade him to make false statements about Šešelj and Slobodan Milošević at the tribunal, at one point offering him money.
(The article in which this interview appeared described Ostojić as living in "extreme poverty" with his family in Prigrevica and noted that he had not been active with the Radical Party in several years.
[13] Against the backdrop of the arrest warrant, Ostojić became active with the Radical Party again and received the twentieth position on its electoral list in the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election.
By this time, the entire country had been restructured as a single electoral division and all mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists in numerical order.
[16] Foreign affairs minister Ivica Dačić responded in August 2016 that Serbia's law on extraditions had been adopted by the Serbian parliament in cooperation with international agencies, that no objections were raised at the time, and that the tribunal had no authority to propose changes.
[18] Rasim Ljajić, a deputy prime minister of Serbia, responded by stating that, "There is a Serbian court ruling that they will not be surrendered.