Voters in the Peruvian town of Queropalca have chosen their new mayor: Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores.
The unusually named candidate for the center-left Ahora Nación party won 34% of the vote. According to local media, the top three candidates were separated by just 42 votes.
Simeon’s candidate application form gives few details (and none about his name), apart from the fact that he manages the Simeon Sac Investment Group.
There have been other politicians called Hitler. In 2018, also in Peru, Hitler beat Lenin in another mayoral race for the district of Yúngar, when Hitler Guesclin Alba Sánchez defeated Lenin Vladimir Rodríguez Valverde.
“I’m the good Hitler,” Alba told broadcasters on the campaign trail, local media reported.
In Namibia, Adolf Hitler Uunona last year won his fifth local election in a row. “As a child I saw it as a totally normal name,” he told the BBC.
“Hitler Mussolini is my favorite person in the world” — his mom, probably
Not a 100% match but still relevant:
At least this Hitler is a leftist and the Namibian one anti apartheid.
There’s no fucking way he was born with that name. These guys have to be changing it for the sole purpose of marketing.
I’m aware that German’s sought refuge around the world during WW2 but there’s just no way this was on purpose.
To be fair, I get the same reaction from people naming their kids after religious prophets. Kind of stupid IMO but whatever floats your boat.
People around the world have different education, if even any at all.
All they know it’s a famous historical name. They probably have no idea of the history behind it.
