"Jae Maew Kusumalvati" has announced her candidacy for prime minister with the Thai Progressive Party, vowing to fight against the energy mafia. Regarding the Senate rigging case, she insists that someone must go to jail, affirming she stands with integrity, without compromise.
On 26 Dec 2025 GMT+7, reporters noted that Mrs. Kusumalvati Sirikomut, also known as Maew, a reserve senator and advisor to the Thai Progressive Party as well as a former MP for Maha Sarakham, posted on her Facebook page that she is launching her candidacy for prime minister with the Thai Progressive Party, ranking high on the party list. Her policies include a 5,000 baht welfare allowance for the elderly and a crackdown on the energy mafia to negotiate reductions in standby payments that the government pays to power producers even when unused. She highlighted that this burden falls on the public, with hundreds of billions wasted annually. She challenged who dares to touch these slave-contract concessions, volunteering to fight energy tycoons who fund all parties, leaving no politician brave enough to act. She also criticized the Social Security Fund, worth trillions, being misused by corrupt gray-area politicians who treat it as a playground for commissions and buying property.
Kusumalvati stated that insured employees receive little benefit; even dental care benefits are hard to secure. Street vendors without employers must join social security as insured persons. She declared that the Senate rigging aiming to control the country must result in jail sentences, and colluding parties must be dissolved. She vowed to enter parliament to fight gray-area politicians and scammers with genuine determination and courage, persisting relentlessly. She revealed that her own party registration faced harassment, with the Election Commission refusing to sign off despite an extraordinary meeting's approval, delaying for three months until parliament dissolved. Although she may have missed the chance this time, she said no mountain can block the flow of justice. Hope remains strong; she has won in all courts. If she cannot establish her own party, like the phoenix, she can rise anew. She thanked the Thai Progressive Party for valuing her fight for Thai people and emphasized, "There is Maew, no gray. We work seriously for the people."