[2] Pelević was a commander of the Serb Volunteer Guard paramilitary during the Croatian War of Independence, serving at the Erdut training camp.

He was elected to the National Assembly of Serbia on the Serbian Radical Party list twice, in 2007 and 2008.

After the party's deputy leader, Tomislav Nikolić, resigned from the SRS and formed the new Serbian Progressive Party, Pelević left the SRS and joined Nikolić's group.

[4] He was elected MP on the SNS ballot in the 2012 election but soon developed disagreements over SNS policies on Kosovo and the European Union, eventually leaving the SNS and becoming an independent MP.

[5] On 21 January 2013, the SSJ party was re-founded as the Council of Serbian Unity by Pelević, Slobodan Radosavljević and Jelena Kostić in Belgrade.