German conservatives push finance minister Schaeuble to swap job

FILE PHOTO - German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble is reflected in a window as he gives a speech for a budget debate at the German national parliament in Berlin, Germany September 8, 2015. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch/File Photo

BERLIN (Reuters) - Senior conservatives raised pressure on Wolfgang Schaeuble on Tuesday to give up the finance ministry and instead impose his authority as head of Germany's next parliament, which will include a large bloc of far-right members.

Schaeuble has held the ministry since 2009 but Sunday's election, in which Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives bled support to the far right and found themselves needing to build an untried coalition, has raised doubts over whether he can keep the job.