 In March 2018, Cioloș announced the creation of a new political party, the Romania Together Movement.Because the legal registration of the new political party took too long, Cioloș announced on 15 December 2018 the existence of a new party, already registered by some anonymous collaborators, called the Freedom, Unity and Solidarity Party (, PLUS), thus dropping the former political project.In January 2019, at the first national convention of PLUS, Cioloș was elected president of the newly-emerged political party with 99.17% of the votes.