Apparently some Peruvian parents really think outside the box when it’s time to name the kids.
From the Guardian:
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 45-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 1 January.
The candidate from the leftwing Ahora Nación party won 229 out of a total of 663 votes in elections on 4 October, according to the national office of electoral processes.
His closest rival, the far-right candidate Gaspar Osorio, received 204 votes.
Flores, who works in freight transportation, had belonged to Popular Force, the party of Peru’s rightwing president, Keiko Fujimori, until 2025, 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 2021, the doctor Hitler Saavedra Casternoque was elected to parliament for the centrist party Somos Peru.
In 2018, Hitler Alba Sánchez was voted in as mayor of the Andean district of Yungar, saying during his campaign that he was “the good Hitler”.
The “good Hitler”'s win was no doubt made sweeter by the fact that his opponent was named Lenin Vladimir Rodriguez Valerde.
And a tip of the cap to Peruvian professional footballer Osama Vinladen Jiminez Lopez and his brother Saddam. The third son was going to be George Bush, but turned out to be a girl and I guess Dad was afraid people would think that was a weird name for a girl.
