Jurin campaigns in Roi Et and Kalasin, promoting farmer income guarantees and the agricultural recovery fund, emphasizing proven experience and results. He seeks a chance for the Democrat Party to form the government.
On 22 January 2026 GMT+7, Jurin Laknawisit, former Democrat Party leader and party list MP candidate, traveled to Roi Et and Kalasin provinces to support the party's district candidates in their campaigns, also asking for votes for the Democrat Party’s list candidate number 27.
At 8:30 a.m., Jurin Laknawisit and Sudarat Wannaphat, a 36-year-old young candidate for MP of Roi Et's district 1, who holds bachelor's degrees in political science and law, campaigned at Thung Charoen Market. They received a warm welcome from vendors and shoppers, many asking for photos and telling Jurin, “We already like you; we remember you.” Several expressed happiness to see Jurin visiting the Northeast again.
Jurin then met with farmer groups waiting at Srisuwan Market before traveling to Kalasin to campaign alongside Pathmaporn Mongkolsin, Democrat Party candidate for Kalasin district 1, number 3. Pathmaporn formerly chaired the Provincial Anti-Corruption Network for Civil Society in Kalasin and was a researcher collaborating with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Mahasarakham Rajabhat University on community participation in addressing corruption, good governance, and democracy in the Northeast. Jurin and Pathmaporn met with farmers and local residents in Ban Najan, Mueang district, Kalasin, then continued campaigning at Kalasin Municipality Market.
Jurin told farmers in Roi Et and Kalasin that the Democrat Party, candidate number 27, maintains its policy of “farmer income guarantees,” a policy they have competently implemented before, greatly benefiting farmers by compensating the difference when crop prices fall. The party also prioritizes resolving farmer debt through the Agricultural Recovery Fund (ARF), which helps prevent farmers from losing their land by purchasing and transferring debts from private financial institutions to the fund, ensuring no farmland is seized. This fund was first established in 1999 under Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai with an initial budget of 1.8 billion baht. Later, under Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva in 2009, the cabinet approved the fund's authority to buy debts and farmland seized by financial institutions to allow farmers to repurchase them, supported by a 1 billion baht budget for restructuring debts owed to four state banks. From 2019 to 2023, while Jurin served as Deputy Prime Minister and chairman of the ARF, the fund received a significant budget boost of 3 billion baht to expand debt purchases and increased the maximum debt purchase per farmer to 5 million baht, with a total restructuring budget of 15 billion baht for debts owed to the four state banks. Therefore, if the Democrat Party has the opportunity to form a government, it will continue to push this agenda. Jurin asked all party district candidates nationwide and the party list candidates, especially number 27, to carry this commitment forward across the Northeast and the whole country.