The Ljubljana municipality had been in hands of the liberals for decades. They called themselves the National Progressive Party, but in June 1918 the name was changed into Yugoslav Democrat Party. The first post-war elections took place on the 26th April 1921. At the mayoral elections of the 8th June, the Catholics (Slovene People's Party), national socialists, socialists and communists were running against the liberals. It seems that this union was more of a social nature. The emphasis was on the Slovene national awareness and defiant attitude towards Belgrade. The anti-liberal union was formedfor the second time at the mayoral elections on the 28th of September 1921, for the third time at the municipality meeting on the 23rd May 1922, and for the fourth time in the Union of the Working People in October 1922 as well as at the December elections, when the Union won. Nevertheless, the alliance was too strange to last. In December 1923, the communists declared that they would join the opposition against the representatives of the Slovene People's Party.