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Create connection

VPN_GATEWAY=vpn1.example.com
VPN_USER=foo
VPN_ROUTES=192.168.11.0/24

nmcli connection add \
    connection.id vpn1 \
    connection.type vpn \
    connection.permissions "user:${USER}" \
    ipv4.routes "${VPN_ROUTES}" \
    ipv4.ignore-auto-routes yes \
    vpn.service-type org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openconnect \
    vpn.data "
        protocol = anyconnect,
        authtype = cert,
        gateway = ${VPN_GATEWAY},
        cacert = ${HOME}/vpn1/ca.pem,
        usercert = ${HOME}/vpn1/certificate.pem,
        userkey = ${HOME}/vpn1/priv.pem,
        cookie-flags = 2
    " \
    vpn.secrets "
        form:main:group_list=CLIENTGROUP,
        form:main:username=${VPN_USER},
        save_passwords=yes
    "

Start connection and enter password once

nmcli connection up vpn1

Debug

#journalctl -fxe NM_CONNECTION=8d5ec3cb-99c5-47ea-84e2-38174cd14702
journalctl -fxe -t NetworkManager

cat /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/vpn1.nmconnection 
nmcli con show vpn1

Links
https://0xsys.blogspot.com/2019/06/configure-vpn-using-nmcli.html