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Brazil’s president provoked outrage after he posted an explicit video of two men URINATING on each other to his 3.4million followers on Twitter .

Jair Bolsonaro claimed he shared the clip of two men performing sex acts during a street party to “expose the truth” about the country’s decadent carnival celebrations.

But critics accused the far-right leader, who took office in January after being elected on the evangelical Christian vote, of distributing pornography and called for him to be removed from office.

Bolsonaro posted the video last night, at the end of the South American nation’s famous carnival celebrations, showing two men dancing on the top of a bus stop in Sao Paulo as people watch on the street below.

One man appears to perform a sex act on himself before the other man lowers his shorts and begins to urinate on his hair.

(Image: @jairbolsonaro/Twitter)

The president wrote: “I don’t feel comfortable in showing this but we have to expose the truth so the population can have knowledge and always choose their priorities.

“This is what many street parties have turned into during the Brazilian carnival.”

But many were outraged by the tweet and reported the video to Twitter as pornography.

Two hours after it was posted, the social network censured the clip as “sensitive” content.

(Image: @jairbolsonaro/Twitter)

Others claimed that distributing the clip was grounds for the president’s impeachment, citing Brazil’s constitution that the country’s leader can be removed if they act “in a manner incompatible with the dignity, honour and propriety of the office.”

By this morning the clip had been retweeted 6,095 times.

But many followers lambasted the president.

One, melzavieira, wrote: “If you’re not comfortable with it, why did you publish it? Maintain the respect of the office you occupy.”

Another, Haddad Debochado, said: “I’m also not comfortable with having you as my president.”

(Image: Getty Images)

And astridfontenell wrote: “I spent the whole carnival seeing beautiful things.

"And them I come across THIS on Twitter from the President of the Republic, which must also be followed by MANY children???! Where is the president’s posture??? You’ve outdone yourself!!!!”

Bolsonaro’s victory in last October’s presidential elections shocked many because of his reputation for racist, sexist and homophobic remarks.

He once told a Brazilian congresswoman “I wouldn’t rape you because you don’t deserve it”, in response to remarks she made claiming he had encouraged rape.

He also reportedly referred to black activists as “animals” who should “go back to the zoo”.

And in an interview with Playboy magazine in 2011 Bolsonaro said that he “would be incapable of loving a homosexual son … I would prefer my son to die in an accident than show up with a moustachioed man.”