[2] The Serbian government initially refused to recognize the opposition's victory but accepted the outcome in early 1997 following extended street protests.

The coalition's triumph was short-lived; the SPO left Zajedno later in the year, Đinđić was removed as mayor, and the DS moved into opposition.

Đurišić received the ninety-fourth position on the DOS's list and was awarded a mandate when the alliance won a landslide victory with 176 out of 250 seats.

)[10] He took his seat when the assembly convened in January 2001 and shortly thereafter accompanied DS deputy chair Boris Tadić on an official visit to Germany.

[17] The list won sixty-four seats; he was again not immediately included in his party's delegation but received a mandate on 22 May 2007 as the replacement for another member.

[18] The DS formed an unstable alliance with the rival Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and G17 Plus after the election, and Đurišić again served as a government supporter.

[19][20] Đurišić was the chief of DS incumbent Boris Tadić's campaign staff in the 2008 Serbian presidential election, which was held over two rounds in January and February.

Soon after the vote, Đurišić was described as having "bawled out" a journalist who asked a challenging question about the DS's coalition partners, and the newspaper Politika ran an editorial criticizing him.

Đurišić received the fifty-ninth position on the alliance's list, which won a plurality victory with 102 out of 250 seats, and was afterward given a mandate for a fourth term.

[27] Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that all parliamentary mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists in numerical order.

[30][31] The SNS and SPS formed a new coalition government at the republic level after the 2012 election, and the DS moved into opposition.

After its fall from power, the DS increasingly became divided into rival wings led by Boris Tadic and Dragan Đilas.

In December 2012, he voted against an internal party decision for former ministers to return their parliamentary mandates (i.e., resign from the legislature).

[33] The SNS and its allies won a majority victory in the election and continued to govern in an alliance with the SPS; the NDS served in opposition, and Đurišić became the leader of its assembly group.

In 2019, Đurišić and fellow SDS parliamentarian Nenad Konstantinović joined a new political movement called Serbia 21.