German Chancellor Olaf Scholz plans to address lawmakers in the lower house of parliament, or Bundestag, on Wednesday following the collapse of his three-party coalition a week ago. The political upheaval means Europe’s biggest economy is now to hold an early election on February 23 instead of September as originally planned. Scholz’s address in parliament at 1 pm (1200 GMT) also effectively serves as the launch of his unpopular centre-left Social Democratic Party’s (SPD) election campaign. Friedrich Merz, who leads the reinvigorated mainstream conservative bloc and is gunning to become the ne…