{"id":13237,"date":"2014-03-19T05:22:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T05:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/colombian-president-wets-pants-during-election\/"},"modified":"2014-03-19T05:22:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T05:22:10","slug":"colombian-president-wets-pants-during-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/colombian-president-wets-pants-during-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombian President Wets Pants During Election Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-4736 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/poik.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{Colombia&#8217;s premier was unable to keep his bladder in check to embarrasing effect.}}<\/p>\n<p>Giving an impassioned speech to supporters at the launch of his re-election campaign in the coastal city of Barranquilla, President Juan Manuel Santos came up a cropper as he began wetting himself onstage.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps to his credit, the 62-year-old did not let something as trivial as a bodily function interrupt him mid-flow and the wet patch on his beige trousers can be seen to be getting bigger and bigger as the speech runs on.<\/p>\n<p>His aides either did not notice or were too scared to step in to tell the president about his accident.<\/p>\n<p>President Santos, a graduate of both the London School of Economic and Harvard, was elected president in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>He will be hoping the incident does not overshadow the policy agenda he will be pushing throughout his campaign for a second term.<\/p>\n<p>None of his aides standing behind him stepped in to tell the president or suggest he leave the stage.<\/p>\n<p>dailymail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Colombia&#8217;s premier was unable to keep his bladder in check to embarrasing effect.}} Giving an impassioned speech to supporters at the launch of his re-election campaign in the coastal city of Barranquilla, President Juan Manuel Santos came up a cropper as he began wetting himself onstage. 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