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The Senate and Chamber of Deputies have approved the bill and it is now pending presidential approval.

A band played a rendition of Italy's national anthem as the King entered the Chamber of Deputies, where a crowd of hundreds of parliamentarians had gathered to hear him speak.

The rain was so intense local media reported that officials inside the Chamber of Deputies - the lower house of Brazil's congress - were forced to use umbrellas inside as water leaked through the roof.

But the idea was soon shot down by Luciano Laspina, a member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies who belongs to the party of centre-right ex-President Mauricio Macri.

She was first elected in 1976 to the the Chamber of Deputies.