Chancellor Olaf Scholz will be far away from Germany when the first results from the state election in Brandenburg start coming in on Sunday evening at just after 6 pm (1600 GMT). The centre-left Social Democrat (SPD) leader will be taking part in the UN’s Summit of the Future in New York, meaning he will be getting the first exit poll projections just after midday. Some would call it high noon for Scholz, as he and his party face not only an embarrassing second place in Brandenburg, but a potentially catastrophic loss of power in national elections in almost exactly a year’s time. Lose-lose s…