Hitler Mussolini Wins Mayoral Election

A politician named Hitler Mussolini Simeón Flores has won a mayoral election in Peru, securing 229 votes on a center-left party ticket.

Simeón, 45, finished first in Queropalca, a district in Peru’s Huánuco region with a population of just over 730 people. Running for the Ahora Nación (Now Nation) party, he received 34.5% of the 663 valid votes cast in the election. His nearest competitor, Gaspar Benilde Osorio Zambrano of Popular Renewal Peru, received 204 votes, putting Simeón ahead by 25. His victory awaits formal proclamation by the electoral authority.

Simeón’s name evokes Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany, and Benito Mussolini, Italy’s fascist dictator and Hitler’s wartime ally.

According to his candidate declaration, Simeón resigned from the populist right-wing Popular Force party in 2025 before running for Ahora Nación. His official profile lists him as the manager of the Simeon Sac Investment Group but does not explain the origin of his name.

Simeón is not the first Peruvian Hitler to win public office.

Hitler Guesclin Alba Sánchez served as mayor of Yúngar, another Andean town, from 2011 to 2014. He won another term in 2018, in a campaign that drew international attention after a resident of a neighboring district named Lennin Vladimir Rodríguez Valverde tried to block him from the ballot.

Alba embraced the unusual coincidence during his campaign, describing himself as “the good Hitler.” He said his name was simply a name and explained that his father had not understood the historical association when he gave it to him.

The phenomenon is not limited to Peru. In Namibia, Adolf Hitler Uunona won a local election for the fifth consecutive time in November 2025. That same month, The Namibian reported that he removed Hitler from his identity card and asked to be known 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.

At least 3,943 Peruvians were named Hitler in 2023, according to civil-registry figures reported by the Peruvian newspaper La República.