He briefly served as Serbia's minister of education in a transitional government that was established after the fall of Slobodan Miloševic in 2000.
[2] After the fall of Yugoslav president Slobodan Miloševic in October 2000, a new transitional government was established in Serbia pending new elections.
Jokić received the eighty-eighth position on the Socialist Party's electoral list in the 2000 Serbian parliamentary election.
Jokić's relatively low position on the list – which was in any event mostly arranged in alphabetical order – did not automatically prevent him from being awarded a mandate, though ultimately he was not included in the Socialist Party's parliamentary delegation.
[10] The Progressives participated in a local coalition government after the election, and Jokić was appointed as president (i.e., speaker) of the municipal assembly.