After a sports injury, Chancellor Olaf Scholz canceled an appointment in Hesse that was planned for Sunday. A spokeswoman for the federal government said on request that he fell while jogging and suffered bruises on his face. His appointments in the coming week are not affected.
Scholz was expected on Sunday in Hesse for election campaign dates. The federal state will hold elections on October 8th. The “Frankfurter Rundschau” and the “Bild” newspaper had previously reported.
According to the SPD state association, the official start of the election campaign of the Hessian SPD top candidate and Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser in Bad Homburg will take place as planned. Defense Minister Boris Pistorius will accompany them, it said.
