A businessman called Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores has been elected the mayor of a remote district in the Peruvian Andes, according to local election data.
The ۴۵-year-old, who shares two of his names with the notorious European dictators, won the race for mayor of Queropalca, in Peru’s central Huánuco region, and will take office on ۱ January.
The candidate from the leftwing Ahora Nación party won ۲۲۹ out of a total of ۶۶۳ votes in elections on ۴ October, according to the national office of electoral processes.
His closest rival, the far-right candidate Gaspar Osorio, received ۲۰۴ votes.
Flores, who works in freight transportation, had belonged to Popular Force, the party of Peru’s rightwing president, Keiko Fujimori, until ۲۰۲۵, according to electoral authorities.
Despite the name being associated with Germany’s Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, several candidates with the name have won elections in Peru.
In ۲۰۲۱, the doctor Hitler Saavedra Casternoque was elected to parliament for the centrist party Somos Peru.
In ۲۰۱۸, Hitler Alba Sánchez was voted in as mayor of the Andean district of Yungar, saying during his campaign that he was “the good Hitler”.
