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BANGKOK (AP) -- Thailand's acting prime minister discussed the country's ongoing political crisis with a group of senators on Monday and insisted his government will not resign.
Prime Minister Niwattumrong Boonsongpaisan told two representatives of the Senate that the Cabinet is willing to cooperate with the upper house but will not step down because that might violate the constitution, said Sen. Wanchai Sornsiri, the spokesman of the Senate's coordinating panel.
The senators sought the meeting after saying Friday that a government with full authority is needed to conduct political reforms. They said the Senate would move to appoint a new government if the Cabinet steps down, but stopped short of directly calling on it to do so.
The Cabinet has operated in a caretaker capacity with limited power since former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra dissolved the lower house in December in a failed bid to ease the political crisis. A new government cannot normally be named until there are elections, which anti-government demonstrators have vowed to block unless political reforms occur first.
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