It now goes to the upper house senate for its approval at an unspecified date.
Parliament's upper house, the senate, was the next target.
These are due to go to the upper house, the senate, on Wednesday.
The House of Lords should be abolished, he self-sacrificingly suggests, and turned into an upper house (a senate perhaps?) for the whole federal kingdom.
But the party did did not get the necessary majority in the upper house, the senate, which holds the same legislative powers as the chamber of deputies.
These subnational entities are generally represented at the national level, possibly on an equal footing, in a second chamber of the national legislature (often called the upper house, or senate).
The move spells an unclear future for the centre-left party, which in February's inconclusive election won an outright majority in the lower house of parliament but not in the upper house, or senate.
An attempt to legislate against "inciting someone to excessive thinness" in 2008 was voted on by MPs but the bill ran out of time to be presented to the upper house, the senate.
Prime minister Renzi is desperate to win, not only to avoid triggering his promise to resign if he loses, but also to push through legislation that has spent much of the last couple of years trundling back and forth between the lower house of deputies and the upper house, the senate.
He made his calculations based on there being 450 members of a new upper chamber or senate, 150 more than initially proposed by the government.
If the senate – the upper house – now decides to carry out an impeachment trial, Rousseff will be suspended for a maximum of 180 days and the vice-president – Michel Temer, known in Brazil as the "vice conspirator" – will take over.
