Berlin: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz fell while jogging and sustained bruises to his face, prompting him to cancel some appointments this weekend, the government said Saturday.
In an emailed response to a query about the incident, the government said that the 65-year-old German leader had “a small sports accident” and cancelled appointments Sunday in the central Hesse region, where a state election is being held October 8. But it said his appointments next week won’t be affected.
The Hesse-based Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper first reported Saturday’s incident. It cited a prominent lawmaker with Scholz’s centre-left Social Democrats, Michael Roth, who had invited the chancellor to his hometown of Heringen and planned a discussion event with him there Sunday.
Scholz has led Germany since December 2021. He previously served as the country’s finance and labor minister and as mayor of Hamburg.
AP