Voters in a tiny Peruvian town just elected a mayor named Hitler Mussolini, a left-wing candidate who quit a conservative party last year.
Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores took the mayor’s race in Queropalca, Peru, on Friday with 229 votes, or 34.5 percent, Breitbart News reported.
His nearest rival, Gaspar Benilde Osorio Zambrano of Popular Renewal Peru, finished with 204 votes and 30.8 percent. In a district that small, a few dozen ballots decided the office.
The New York Post put the town’s population at about 730 and noted only 42 votes separated the top three finishers. Flores ran on the left-wing Now Nation ticket, also rendered as Ahora Nación, one year after leaving the conservative Popular Force party tied to Keiko Fujimori.
Flores is 45 and was born in the department of Huanuco, about 224 miles from Lima, the BBC material carried in the coverage said. Local media also described him as a former manager of the Simeon Sac Investment Group.
He left Popular Force in 2025 and joined Now Nation before seeking the Queropalca job. The candidate profile offered no explanation for the given names Hitler and Mussolini.
The result handed a left-wing banner a narrow victory in a remote district after the winner had walked away from a right-leaning organization. Voters cast real ballots for a real office. The name still dominated the coverage.
This was not the first time a Peruvian local race featured the name. In 2018, Hitler Guesclin Alba Sanchez defeated Lenin Vladimir Rodriguez Valverde for mayor of Yungar. Sanchez campaigned under the slogan “I’m the good Hitler.”
Asked about the name, that earlier mayor told Efe:
"Maybe it’s a coincidence that my name is Hitler... I really don’t have any objection to Hitler. It’s like any other name."
No comparable quote from Flores appeared in the reporting. The pattern is plain enough: extreme historical names keep showing up on Peruvian ballots, and some candidates treat them as ordinary branding.
Queropalca is a very small district. Two hundred twenty-nine votes made Flores mayor. Two hundred four votes left Osorio Zambrano short. The gap was 25 ballots.
National outlets still locked onto the winner’s full name. The race itself turned on ordinary local arithmetic, turnout, party labels, and a late switch from Popular Force to a left-wing list.
What the coverage did not supply was any official statement from Flores on policy, any certified higher-authority tally beyond the reported percentages, or any account of why his parents chose those first names. The record stops at the vote count, the party hop, and the prior Yungar precedent.
When a town of a few hundred people can hand power to a candidate named Hitler Mussolini on a left-wing line, the joke notes itself, and the voters still have to live with the government that follows.
