In 2020, in facing of the upcoming state election, then Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin met Hajiji to talk about a possibility to make a new local political coalition.

Prior to the election, GRS was formally launched to the public by Muhyiddin and Hajiji, initially organised by BN, PBS and Perikatan Nasional (PN).

Hajiji was officially elected as new Chief Minister and takes oath in front of Governor Juhar Mahiruddin in post-election, succeeding Shafie.

Hajiji Noor later elected as the first registered chairman, assisted by Masidi Manjun, Yong Teck Lee, Pandikar Amin Mulia, Jeffrey Kitingan and Joachim Gunsalam.

In 2023, in response to PN's defeat and also Muhyiddin's religion statement controversies[10] in 15th general election[11] besides his controversial rule as Prime Minister between 2020-21, Hajiji announced that he and all members of BERSATU Sabah have resigned from the party, vowing to form a new political party to reclaim the autonomy of Sabah, that ultimately created Direct Members of GRS to allowing independent assemblymans to joining it.

In response to Hajiji's decision, Bung announced that BN Sabah has pulled their support for the Chief Minister, claiming that he had breached the party hopping prevention law.

[12] Later that day, he met Shafie to discuss about the possibility of forming a new coalition to ensure the Senallang Assemblyman's return to the Chief Minister's Office.

As of result, Hajiji swaps Bung with Shahelmey for Deputy Chief Minister's post, and the Kinabatangan MP was dropped from the ruling cabinet.

In the aftermath of the crisis, Hajiji made a major decision to fire the Kinabatangan MP from his cabinet line-up and replaced Bung Mokhtar with Shahelmey as the Minister of Works.

UMNO and BN Sabah, led by Bung, on January announced that they had pullover their support against Sulaman assemblyman for his responsible quit BERSATU.