FILE PHOTO: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her then-parliamentary group leader Volker Kauder at the opening ceremony of the new Daimler Testing and Technology Centre in Immendingen, Germany September 19, 2018. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann
BERLIN (Reuters) - The new parliamentary leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives has downplayed his surprise election, which dealt an unexpected blow to the authority of the centre-right leader.
Ralph Brinkhaus told ZDF broadcaster late on Tuesday that his election as the leader of the conservative group in the Bundestag lower house of parliament was an "internal vote" that should not be overstated.
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