as a 23-year-old, she joined the democrat party and became a staff member of niphon promphan, who was secretary-general to prime minister abhisit vejjajiva. in december 2009, chitpas caused controversy when she distributed advertising calendars of her family's leo beer brand, depicting scantily clad models, at government house. she resigned her position, but was hired for another government position as secretary to the minister of information and communication technology (ict). in the 2011 parliamentary election, she ran as a constituency candidate for the dusit and ratchathewi districts of bangkok, but lost. she then served as the deputy spokeswoman of the democrat party, that was the main opposition after the 2011 election. in this position, she called for a clampdown on websites insulting the monarchy, under the thai lèse majesté law and computer crimes act.