[3] In February 2000, following the Kosovo War, she was included on a list of Serbian government officials banned from travelling to European Union countries.
[5] The Radicals won a single seat in the division, which was automatically assigned to their first-ranked candidate, party leader Vojislav Šešelj.
[6] Radeta also ran for the Belgrade city assembly in the concurrent 2000 Serbian local elections and lost to a candidate of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) in Zemun's eleventh division.
The Serbian government also fell after Milošević's defeat in the Yugoslavian election, and Radeta's tenure as a deputy minister ended in October 2000.
[18][19] The overall results of this election were inconclusive, and the Radicals afterward held discussions with the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and the Socialists about forming a new coalition government.
[24] Nada Kolundžija, a prominent member of Tadić's Democratic Party (DS), stated that "Radeta's comments could be interpreted as a call for violence, as justification for [Đinđić]'s murder."
The Economist noted that her comment was directed at Nikolić, who had recently met with Tadić to ensure the passage of a key agreement with the European Union.
Mehmedović's husband and two sons were killed by Serb forces in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, and Radeta's comment was condemned by several politicians and human rights groups in Serbia.
Representatives of the Sandžak Council for the Protection of Human Rights and Freedom urged Serbian civil society and media to distance themselves from "this sublimate of fascism" and "clearly reject it and support justice for both dead and alive.”[36] Radeta deleted her Twitter account in the aftermath of the controversy.
[37] An article in Politika from this period noted that Radeta was known for her extremely abusive language on Twitter long before this particular controversy and observed, "it would be hard for a respectable newspaper to reprint even a fraction of the epithets that the Deputy Speaker of the Assembly of Serbia used in reference to her various opponents.
Radeta was appointed as a substitute member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on 25 June 2007 and continued in this role until 1 November 2012.
[46] According to Agence France Presse, Radeta was specifically accused of having "contacted a prosecution witness and [telling] him Šešelj's lawyers 'would help him' if he changed his testimony" in a contempt of court case against the Radical Party leader.
[48] The ICTY continued to demand that the three Radicals be extradited, arguing that Serbia's existing legal framework could not be used as an excuse for non-compliance and urging the country to change its legislation to comply with the arrest warrants.
[49] 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.
[55] In June of the following year, Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić reaffirmed his government's view that the decision of the Belgrade Higher Court was binding and that the two accused would not be extradited.
[56] In May 2022, Vojislav Šešelj received a summons to appear before the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals to respond to charges concerning the publication of classified information and the names of protected witnesses.