A candidate whose name combines two of the twentieth century’s most notorious dictators has won a mayoral race in a remote district of Peru, according to vote tallies reported by the Daily Wire.
Hitler Mussolini Simeón Flores, 45, finished first in Queropalca, a district in the Huánuco region with a population of just over 730 people, securing 229 votes on the center-left Ahora Nación (Now Nation) party ticket. He took 34.5 percent of the 663 valid ballots cast, putting him 25 votes ahead of his nearest competitor, Gaspar Benilde Osorio Zambrano of Popular Renewal Peru, who received 204 votes. The result now awaits formal proclamation by Peru’s electoral authority.
The candidate’s given names evoke Adolf Hitler, who led Nazi Germany, and Benito Mussolini, Italy’s fascist dictator and Hitler’s wartime ally. His official candidate profile offers no explanation for the name, listing him only as manager of the Simeon Sac Investment Group.
A Familiar Pattern in Peruvian Politics
Simeón is far from the first Peruvian named after a dictator to win elected office. Hitler Guesclin Alba Sánchez served as mayor of Yúngar, another Andean town, from 2011 to 2014, and won another term in 2018. His re-election campaign drew international attention after a resident of a neighboring district, Lennin Vladimir Rodríguez Valverde, attempted to block him from the ballot.
Alba leaned into the coincidence rather than running from it. During the campaign he described himself as “the good Hitler,” telling interviewers that his name was simply a name and that his father had not understood the historical association when he chose it.
At least 3,943 Peruvians were named Hitler in 2023, according to civil-registry figures reported by the Peruvian newspaper La República — a statistic that helps explain how such names travel through generations in the country.
Not Just Peru
The phenomenon extends beyond the Andes. In Namibia, Adolf Hitler Uunona won a local election for the fifth consecutive time in November 2025. That same month, The Namibian reported that Uunona had removed Hitler from his identity card and asked to be known simply as Adolf Uunona. In a 2020 interview, he said the name had seemed normal to him as a child and that he had “nothing to do with” Nazism.
On the campaign trail, Alba offered a similar explanation a few years earlier, telling audiences the name was an accident of birth rather than a statement of ideology.
A Small District, a Modest Mandate
Queropalca’s mayoralty carries limited formal power, but the race quickly found an audience outside Peru’s borders because of Simeón’s name. According to his candidate declaration, he resigned from the populist right-wing Popular Force party in 2025 before running under the Ahora Nación banner — a shift from a party aligned with former president Keiko Fujimori’s movement to a center-left outfit.
The vote totals suggest a tight local contest: with turnout producing 663 valid ballots, the margin between Simeón and Osorio Zambrano amounted to just under four percentage points. Peru’s electoral authorities have not yet issued the formal proclamation that would confirm Simeón as mayor-elect.
Whether the name carries any political weight in Queropalca is unclear. The candidate’s own campaign materials, as described in the source reporting, do not address it. Neither does the profile filed with electoral officials, which focuses on his business role rather than his unusual moniker.
For now, the result stands as another entry in a small but growing file of Latin American politicians whose names invoke the Axis powers — a quirk of naming traditions that, as Alba and Uunona have each insisted, says more about parental choice than political belief.
Source: www.dailywire.com — https://www.dailywire.com/news/hitler-mussolini-wins-mayoral-election