[6][7] On 30 March 2018, former Prime Minister of Romania Dacian Cioloș announced his plans to establish a new political party, the Romania Together Movement (Mișcarea România Împreună), together with some of the former members of the Cioloș Cabinet, such as Dragoș Pîslaru, Vlad Voiculescu, Alin Mituța, Dragoș Tudorache, and Anca Dragu.

[8] Despite the party gaining notoriety in the subsequent months and appearing in various opinion polls,[9][10][11] its official registration was never finalized due to various appeals and delays in the legal process, which Cioloș claimed to be politically motivated.

[12] After almost 9 months, on 15 December, Cioloș announced in Cluj-Napoca that the Freedom, Unity and Solidarity Party (Partidul Libertății, Unității și Solidarității, PLUS) was registered by three of his colleagues, "who share the same values, the same principles, anonymous people, but who wanted to offer a helping hand".

[17] On the evening of 2 February 2019, it was announced on Facebook that PLUS and the Save Romania Union (USR) established the 2020 USR-PLUS Alliance, which will participate in the 2019 European Parliament elections.

However, a manifesto was published on the party's website[20] expressing support for liberty, social justice, transparency in public administration, as well as commitment to Romania's EU and NATO membership.