Watch: Colombian president wets himself during election speech

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Colombia'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.

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.

His aides either did not notice or were too scared to step in to tell the president about his accident.

President Santos, a graduate of both the London School of Economic and Harvard, was elected president in 2010.

He will be hoping the incident does not overshadow the policy agenda he will be pushing throughout his campaign for a second term.

None of his aides standing behind him stepped in to tell the president or suggest he leave the stage.

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