Yet though a mayor may matter more to citizens than a state premier, voter turnout is higher in state elections.
Hans Eichel, a former premier of the state of Hesse, became Germany's finance minister after Oskar Lafontaine resigned.
Victoria, the second-most populous state, has undergone the most spectacular change, thanks to Jeff Kennett, its state premier.
Nor do they much like Roland Koch, the CDU state premier.
ECONOMIST: The Free Democrats have done unexpectedly well in Hesse
"This is an absolute tragedy, but the ramifications of which we've got to make sure we don't magnify, " said Mr Kennett, the former state premier of Victoria.
Though tainted by a local scandal, Roland Koch, the young state premier of Hesse, has just been boosted by a remarkable vote of confidence from 98% of his local party people.
There was only one real victor: the cocky state premier, Edmund Stoiber, an old rival of Mr Kohl who managed to get through the entire campaign without publicly mentioning the chancellor's name.
After the decision was announced, German Economy Minister Rainer Bruederle called GM's behaviour "totally unacceptable", while Christine Lieberknecht, the premier of Thuringia state, which hosts an Opel plant, called the decision a "low blow".
But the state's premier then said he was voting the entire state one way.
He is not a natural ally of Mr Mbeki, having been ousted from his job as premier of the Free State last year: he had been trying to root out corruption.
German media also reported that Guenther Oettinger, premier of the southern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, had canceled a meeting with the Briton at this weekend's German Grand Prix at Nurburgring because of his comments about Hitler.
Among Christian Democrats, only Kurt Biedenkopf, the 70-year-old premier of the eastern state of Saxony (who may still have an outside chance of becoming the party's stop-gap leader), is more liked in the country at large.
Beginning this fall, low- and moderate-income students will receive free tuition at the state's premier public institution.
Victoria Premier John Brumby said the state government would undertake a community consultation process on the report before responding.
So the Bundesrat's chairman, Klaus Wowereit, a Social Democrat, asked Manfred Stolpe, Brandenburg's Social Democratic premier, to clarify his state's position.
Deve Gowda, a former chief minister of southern Karnataka state, became premier at the head of a 13-party coalition -- considered the first genuinely federal government in the country.
For the Big Ten Conference, the first half of 2011 saw the shaming of its premier football program, Ohio State, over former coach Jim Tressel's handling of an improper-benefits scandal.
The American, son of co-owner Tom Hicks, became embroiled in controversy when it emerged he had responded abusively when one supporter contacted him directly about the state of the Premier League club and their finances.
The premier of Western Australia, the state where the Pilbara is located, is muttering about increasing royalties.
Whatever the election result, he says, he will not give up his job as premier of the deep-south state of Carinthia for one in Vienna.
Even the CDU welcomed the choice of an eastern German premier who heads a grand coalition in his own state.
If they lose the March 26th election in Rhineland-Palatinate, the only big state that still has a Social Democratic premier, both parties may start to have second thoughts about the grand coalition: the Social Democrats because they are losing votes, the Christian Democrats because they may be tempted to call a new federal election.
Barry O'Farrell, the state's Liberal leader and now its premier, will complicate life for Ms Gillard.
The Brighton, Michigan, native played four seasons at Grand Valley State, which traditionally has one of the premier programs in Division II college football.
Nine months after an election in Hesse had produced a tie between the two main parties, the state legislature was due to replace Roland Koch, boss of the local Christian Democratic Union (CDU), as premier and to install Andrea Ypsilanti, leader of the state's Social Democrats (SPD), in his place.
Since April's election in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, the Social Democratic premier there has led a minority government tolerated by the ex-communists.
But another letter, from the premier of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan and signed by 10 state governors, stressed that the pipeline guaranteed energy supplies into the future from a reliable source.
Nor can he prove his mettle as the opposition's best hope until early next year, in Lower Saxony's next state elections, when anything less than holding his own as premier would sink him nationally.
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In Ukraine , the prime minister, Viktor Yanukovich, looked more likely to become the country's next president after aides to the current head of state, Leonid Kuchma, said that they would back the premier in elections in October.
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