BERLIN (Reuters) - Angela Merkel will become Germany's first woman chancellor on Tuesday with the broadest parliamentary mandate in decades to pursue overdue economic reforms, but already under widespread attack for her plans.
As Germany's eighth post-war chancellor and the leader of the first "grand coalition" government since 1969, Merkel's Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats have a crushing majority in parliament's lower house with 448 of its 614 seats.
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