After the fall of Milošević in 2000, Predrag Bulatović took over the leadership of the SNP CG and democratised it.
According to Marko Attila Hoare, a former employee at the ICTY, an investigative team worked on indictments of persons whom they labelled a ‘joint criminal enterprise’, including Slobodan Milošević, Veljko Kadijević, Blagoje Adžić, Borisav Jović, Branko Kostić, Momir Bulatović and others.
After being forced out of power in early 1989 by Milo Đukanović, Svetozar Marović and Momir Bulatović in the wake of "anti-bureaucratic revolution", the 58-year-old Ivanović semi-retired from politics though he still continued holding official rank and fringe influence within Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro (transformed Montenegrin branch of Yugoslav Communist League) for some time afterwards.