 He later became vice-president of the diocesan council of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the town of Požarevac, and represented the Požarevac diocese in the church's patriarchal council.Ljotić joined the People's Radical Party (, NRS) of Nikola Pašić in 1920, stating that it was "God's will".He ran for public office in the 1927 parliamentary elections, and received 5,614 votes.