On the 24th of January 2022, Robert Golob, at that time still the Chairman of the board at GEN-I, announced his candidature for the President of the party in decline, its transformation and changing the name to the Freedom Movement.

[22] On Saturday the 19th of March 2022, there was an election convention of the party, at which they represented their program for the elections and their candidacy list,[23] which included some famous names such as former boxer Dejan Zavec, journalist of RTV Slovenija Mojca Šetinc Pašek, Mayor of Tržič Borut Sajovic, an expert for Nuclear security Miroslav Gregorič, former rector of the University of Ljubljana Igor Papič and orthopedist Danijel Bešič Loredan.

[24] In the 2022 parliamentary elections, the Freedom Movement placed first with 34.5% of the vote and won 41 of the 90 seats in the National Assembly, defeating the Slovenian Democratic Party and its three-term prime minister Janez Janša.

[25] The Social Democrats, another centre-left party, announced that they would join a government led by Golob,[26] in addition to The Left, giving him a majority in the legislature and making him Prime Minister of Slovenia, an office he assumed on 25 May 2022.

As social measures, the party points out publicly available health care and the increase in the number of employees, the reform of the education system and the digitalisation of schools.

[29] In Croatia, the news portal Index commented that Robert Golob embodies the values of the late Prime Minister and President Janez Drnovšek.