File - File picture taken Nov.2, 2020 shows German Chancellor Angela Merkel arriving for a press conference in Berlin, Germany. The coronavirus pandemic is colliding with politics as Germany embarks on its vaccination drive and one of the most unpredictable election years in its post-World War II history. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, file)

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021 file photo, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn arrive at the weekly cabinet meeting wearing face masks in Berlin, Germany. The coronavirus pandemic is colliding with politics as Germany embarks on its vaccination drive and one of the most unpredictable election years in its post-World War II history. (John Macdougall/Pool via AP, File)

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2020 file photo, Markus Soeder, Governor of Bavaria and Chairman of the CSU, speaks at the press conference at the beginning of his visit to the winter meeting of the CSU parliamentary group in Berlin, Germany. The coronavirus pandemic is colliding with politics as Germany embarks on its vaccination drive and one of the most unpredictable election years in its post-World War II history. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP, File)

FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2020 file photo, Christian Social Union chairman and Bavarian governor Markus Soeder, Christian Democratic Union chairwoman Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Social Democratic Party co-chairman Walter-Borjans and co-chairwoman Saskia Esken, from left, arrive for a news conference after a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany. The coronavirus pandemic is colliding with politics as Germany embarks on its vaccination drive and one of the most unpredictable election years in its post-World War II history. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2020 file photo, German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, right, delivers a speech beside German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, during a budget debate as part of a meeting of the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020. The coronavirus pandemic is colliding with politics as Germany embarks on its vaccination drive and one of the most unpredictable election years in its post-World War II history. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020 file photo, German Health Minister Jens Spahn arrives for a press conference in Berlin, Germany. The coronavirus pandemic is colliding with politics as Germany embarks on its vaccination drive and one of the most unpredictable election years in its post-World War II history. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, file, pool)

FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020 file photo, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and Bavarian govenor Markus Soeder, right, leave a news conference following talks of the governmnet with the federal state govenors, at the Chancellery in Berlin. The coronavirus pandemic is colliding with politics as Germany embarks on its vaccination drive and one of the most unpredictable election years in its post-World War II history. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, Pool, File)

FILE - In this Dec. 30, 2020 file photo German Chancellor Angela Merkel poses for photographs after the television recording of her annual New Year's speech at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany. The coronavirus pandemic is colliding with politics as Germany embarks on its vaccination drive and one of the most unpredictable election years in its post-World War II history. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2020 file photo, the three candidates for the chairmanship of the Christian Democratic Union party, CDU, Friedrich Merz, left, Norbert Roettgen, center, and Armin Laschet, right, take part in a discussion at the party's headquarters in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. Background slogan reads: 'CDU Chairmanship: The candidate round'. The coronavirus pandemic is colliding with politics as Germany embarks on its vaccination drive and one of the most unpredictable election years in its post-World War II history.(AP Photo /Markus Schreiber, File)

FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2020 file photo, German chancellor Angela Merkel, left, wears a face mask due to the coronavirus pandemic as she meets Governor Armin Laschet, right, during her visit at Germany's most populated federal state North Rhine-Westphalia in Duesseldorf, Germany. The coronavirus pandemic is colliding with politics as Germany embarks on its vaccination drive and one of the most unpredictable election years in its post-World War II history. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)