The chairwoman of Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD), Saskia Esken, has clearly spoken out in favour of incumbent Olaf Scholz as the party’s candidate for German chancellor in next year’s election to the lower house, or Bundestag. “Olaf Scholz is our chancellor, and he is our chancellor candidate with whom we will go into the election. There is great unity in the party,” Esken told Sunday’s edition of the broadsheet Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in comments seen in advance by dpa. She rejected criticism of the chancellor’s communication and leadership style: “Olaf Scholz leads in a way t…