A left-wing politician who shares his name with fascist dictators Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini has become the mayor of a Peruvian town – just one year after he resigned from a right-wing populist party.

Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores, 45, prevailed with 34% of the vote in Sunday’s election in Queropalca, running on a center-left ticket for Peru’s Ahora Nacion (Now Nation) party.

It’s unclear when the politician joined the Ahora Nacion party, but he was previously a member of the right-wing Popular Force party before resigning in 2025, according to his candidate declaration form.

Popular Force is a populist movement led by Peru’s president, Keiko Fujimori, who is the daughter of dictator Alberto Fujimori.

Left-wing candidate Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores has been elected mayor of a Peruvian town. JNE

Mussolini, who was formerly the manager of the Simeon Sac Investment Group, won the election with 229 votes – 25 votes more than his nearest rival, Gaspar Benilde Osario Zambrano, who represented the right-wing Popular Renewal party.

Just 42 votes separated the top three candidates in Sunday’s ballot, which took place in Queropalca, which consists of 730 people.

The new mayor claims to have received a high school diploma, but it’s unclear if he is university- educated. 

He is not the first “Hitler” to win an election, either. 

Hitler Alba, who served as mayor of the town of Yungar between 2011 and 2014, ran for election in 2018 and one of his rivals was Lennin Vladimir Rodriguez Valverde.

This election captivated the internet, prompting commenters to dub the contest “Hitler v Lenin,” given the similarity of Valverde’s name to the Soviet Union founder.

Hitler with Mussolini at a Third Reich parade in Munich, Germany, in 1937. Mondadori via Getty Images

During the election, Hitler Alba ran on a slogan that he was a “good” Hitler.

“Maybe it’s a coincidence that my name is Hitler,” he told the Peruvian news agency Efe. “I really don’t have any objection to Hitler. It’s like any other name. For me, it’s as if my name was Juan, Lucas, or Sebastian.”

Voters didn’t seem to care about his name either, as Hitler Alba won the contest with 47.7%.

In November last year, a Namibian politician, known as Adolf Hitler Uunona, won an election in his local seat for the fifth time in a row. 

He has since dropped the “Hitler” part of his name amid the internet craze and he’s now known as Adolf Uunona.

“My name is not Adolf Hitler. I am Adolf Uunona,” he told the Namibian.

“I have seen in the past people calling me Adolf Hitler and trying to associate me with someone I do not even know.”