[3] The council was intended as an interim representative and ruling body of South Slavs living in the territory of former Austria-Hungary, organised as the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs.

[4] In early 1919, the leader of the Croat-Serb Coalition Svetozar Pribićević, acting in the capacity of the newly appointed Interior Minister of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, proposed to the Prince Regent Alexander to appoint his protege, Paleček the Ban of Croatia (the office largely corresponding to that of the prime minister of the Habsburg Kingdom of Croatia and later Croatia-Slavonia).

Nonetheless, Paleček took the oath of office before Prime Minister Stojan Protić and Pribičević.

The Paleček's declaration and the method of his appointment generated anti-government resentment among the Croatian public.

[7] Paleček was removed from office in November 1919,[2] replaced by Tomislav Tomljenović [hr], another Democratic Party appointee.