 The party received little support from the largely anti-German Serbian public and never won more than 1 percent of the vote in the 1935 and 1938 Yugoslav parliamentary elections.Ljotić was arrested in the run-up to the latter elections and briefly sent to an insane asylum after the authorities accused him of having a "religious mania".He voiced his opposition to the Cvetković–Maček Agreement in 1939 and his supporters reacted to it violently.