Sudarat announced a five-point policy for women to fully promote Thai women's opportunities by creating jobs and income, ensuring life safety, healthcare, welfare for mothers and children, and pensions for the elderly.
On 17 January 2026, Khun Ying Sudarat Keyuraphan, leader of the Thai Sang Thai Party and prime ministerial candidate, announced key policies to support and create opportunities for Thai women. She emphasized that women make up over half the population; continued discrimination would cause significant national loss. She proposed a comprehensive policy divided into five main areas as follows.
1) Opportunities for stable careers and income by upgrading the Women’s Role Development Fund from simple cash grants to a comprehensive career-building fund providing capital, knowledge, and marketing support. The focus is on upskilling in digital skills, online and offline marketing, accounting, finance, and law to enable women to sell effectively.
Establish the Lady Future Fund to provide all women, including single mothers, access to loans from 10,000 to 100,000 baht using only their ID card without collateral. The fund offers a low 1% interest rate alongside mentoring and women-specific upskilling to build stable careers and incomes.
2) Women’s health made easily accessible and truly free by enhancing the 30-baht healthcare rights, allowing women to receive breast and cervical cancer screenings at any hospital using only an ID card or gold card without complicated procedures. Access to HPV vaccines will also be simplified, eliminating the need to book through the Paotang app.
The policy includes expanding free HPV vaccinations to all girls nationwide using just their ID cards at any hospital. It also aims to restore and upgrade the Women’s Support Centers in all hospitals to provide quality mental health support and counseling for women facing life challenges and violence.
3) Safety in all aspects and locations by strictly enforcing laws to eliminate violence against women in families, schools, workplaces, and online. Cases will be prosecuted decisively to protect human dignity. Public transport safety will be enhanced with Lady Bogie seats on trains and subways and Lady Seats on buses, vans, and public transport reserved at the front for mothers and children. Physical safety will be improved with better lighting and safe spaces in alleys and communities in cooperation with local administrative organizations.
4) Welfare for mothers and children to reduce burdens and support women from pregnancy, childbirth, child-rearing, to working life. Monthly child support coupons of 2,000 baht will reduce family expenses. Free education will be supported through a bachelor's degree, with adjusted learning hours. Quality childcare centers will be established in every village and community so mothers can work confidently.
5) Welfare for elderly women to ensure lifelong security by providing a 3,000 baht monthly pension to create stability after working age. Specific health care issues for elderly women will be closely managed to ensure good quality of life and dignity.
Khun Ying Sudarat emphasized that these five policies are not merely "women’s policies" but an investment in the country’s future, enabling every woman to fully realize her potential, care for her family, and contribute equally to Thailand’s development.