German Chancellor Olaf Scholz of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) will once again be his party’s chancellor candidate in next year’s Bundestag or parliamentary elections – even if the SPD makes a poor showing in June’s European vote, a party leader said. “Olaf Scholz is the chancellor, and he will remain so. And he will also be our candidate again,” Lars Klingbeil, co-leader of the SPD, told the newspaper Rheinische Post in remarks published on Thursday. He made the comments when asked about consequences in the event of a poor performance by the SPD in the European Parliament elections, which…