BANGKOK: A coalition of Thai political parties, struggling to form a government after two failed attempts, announced on Friday it would try again next week to persuade conservative parliamentary opponents to back it, and suggested it might consider removing its most progressive member that won May's election.

The eight-party grouping met in the capital Bangkok on Friday for the first time since Thailand's parliament voted to block Pita Limjaroenrat, leader of the progressive Move Forward Party (MFP), from becoming prime minister.

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