Hitler Mussolini Simeón Flores of Ahora Nación received 229 of 663 valid votes on 4 October 2026, against 204 for Gaspar Benilde Osorio Zambrano of Renovación Popular.
Official proclamation depends on the Jurado Electoral Especial resolving challenges to the voting minutes, a step that can take days or weeks, and Flores is due to take office on 1 January 2027.
According to El País, as reported by Libertatea, Flores changed his phone number after unknown callers flooded it, and party sources said he was targeted by attempted blackmail.
On 4 October 2026, Hitler Mussolini Simeón Flores, a 45-year-old businessman, was elected mayor of Queropalca, a district in Lauricocha province in the Huánuco region of the central Peruvian Andes. He ran for the centre-left Ahora Nación party and received 229 of the 663 valid votes, according to the national office of electoral processes. His closest rival, Gaspar Benilde Osorio Zambrano of the right-wing Renovación Popular party, received 204 votes, leaving Flores 25 ahead. Itala Yovana Santillán Vara of País para Todos placed third with 187 votes. Reports put the total ballots recorded at 707, including 30 blank and 14 null. The district has roughly 730 residents, according to official 2024 figures cited by Focus.
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The result is not yet final. Rai News reports that a mayor is only proclaimed once the Jurado Electoral Especial resolves any challenges to the voting minutes and hands over credentials, a step that can take days or weeks. Libertatea reports that all minutes were centralised by the electoral authority, but the official proclamation was still required when the reports were written. Flores is due to take office on 1 January 2027. Electoral authorities say he belonged to Fuerza Popular, the party of Keiko Fujimori, until 2025. Representatives of Ahora Nación told El País that he is a reserved and shy man, little used to public attention.
International press picked up the story because of the name, which combines the first names of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, both regarded by historians and international law as war criminals. Rzeczpospolita reports that Flores sometimes hides his first name because of its historical associations. Libertatea, citing El País, reports that after the story spread his phone rang so often that he changed his number. Party sources told El País that he was also targeted by attempted blackmail.
The Queropalca result is not an isolated case. In 2018, Hitler Guesclin Alba Sánchez won the mayoral race in Yungar, in the Áncash region, with 47.7 percent of the vote from about 2,500 electors, after he had already led the district from 2011 to 2014. During that campaign he presented himself as the good Hitler and told journalists:
“I am a good Hitler”
In 2021, the doctor Hitler Saavedra Casternoque was elected to the Peruvian Congress. In Namibia, Adolf Hitler Uunona won the Ompundja constituency for the fifth consecutive time in 2025, a seat he has held since 2004 for SWAPO. Rai News also reports that the Reniec civil registry counted 3,943 Peruvian citizens named Hitler in 2023.
Rzeczpospolita, citing Leonardo Haberkorn's reportage on Uruguay, describes the Hitler name as popular among boys born shortly before or during the Second World War, although it is now less common. Haberkorn describes other unusual names from the same period, such as Feo Lindo Mendez and Maternidad Latorre, as the product of a contest among parents to find the most imaginative choice. According to the same report, civil registry offices raised no objections to such names.
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The 45-year-old businessman won 229 of 663 valid votes on 4 October, 25 more than runner-up Gaspar Osorio. He takes office on 1 January, though official proclamation is still pending.
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