BERLIN, July 15 (Xinhua) -- Winfried Kretschmann, Minister President of Baden-Wuerttemberg, continued to be the most popular head of a German federal state, with 73 percent of citizens in the state satisfied with his work, according to the Forsa Institute poll Trendbarometer published on Monday.
Not only were 89 percent of Green party supporters satisfied with Kretschmann's work, but a large majority of supporters of the national government's coalition parties, Chancellor Merkel's CDU and the Social Democrat Party (SPD), were also satisfied.
Green party politician Kretschmann had already been Germany's most popular head of state in the Forsa Trendbarometer of 2017 and 2018.
With an approval rate of 66 percent, Daniel Guenther, Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein, was the second most popular head of a federal state in Germany, followed by Stephan Weil of Lower Saxony who was ranked third with 60 percent.
At the bottom of the ranking was Berlin's governing mayor, Michael Mueller (SPD), whose work was only rated positively by 27 percent of people living in the German capital's federal state.
Following a big win in the European Parliament elections in May, where the Green party in Germany won 20.5 percent of votes and became second strongest political force, support for the Green party in Germany is at a historic high.
According to last week's Trendbarometer, the Greens would gain the same number of votes as the governing conservative union CDU/CSU if elections were to be held.
With regards to a first Green German chancellor, Winfried Kretschmann recently told the Funke Media Group that a German government led by the Greens would not involve a radical change of policy.
"Nobody needs to be afraid of a Green Chancellor. We are not trumps or Erdogans or Orbans who throw everything overboard," Kretschmann told the German newspapers.
The head of Baden-Wuerttemberg noted that he did not see "big differences" in alliances with the CDU/CSU and the SPD. "In socio-political issues, we make progress with the social democrats, in economic policy with the CDU/CSU".
