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	Phirasak represented acting Senate speaker Surachai Liengboonlertchai to meet Niwattumrong to discuss solutions for the political impasse.</div>
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	Phirasak said Niwattumrong insisted that he would go on running the country as the caretaker government until a new government is formed.</div>
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