He was defeated by Mile Ilić of the Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS), who was also the city's mayor.
He later joined the People's Party (Narodna stranka, NS), leading its electoral list for Niš in the 1992 parliamentary election and appearing in the second position in 1993.
[8] The DS contested the 2000 Yugoslavian general election as part of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (Demokratska opozicija Srbije, DOS), a broad and ideologically diverse coalition of parties opposed to Slobodan Milošević's administration.
[9][10] Slobodan Milošević was defeated by Vojislav Koštunica in the concurrent Yugoslavian presidential election, a watershed event that prompted major changes in the political culture of Serbia and Yugoslavia.
The DOS also won a landslide victory in Niš in the concurrent 2000 Serbian local elections, and Đorđević was re-elected to the city assembly for the twenty-eighth division.
)[19] His term was ultimately brief; he was re-appointed to the federal assembly of Serbia and Montenegro on 12 February 2004 and so resigned his seat in the republican parliament.
[20] The DS was defeated in Niš in the 2004 Serbian local elections, and Đorđević stood down as president of the executive board shortly thereafter.