A man named Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores has been elected as mayor of a town in Peru.

The candidate, who stood for the centre-left Ahora Nación party, won 34% of the vote in Queropalca, a remote district in the Peruvian Andes.

In total, 229 residents out of 700 voted for the 45-year-old, with local media reporting that the top three candidates were separated by just 42 votes.

The newly elected mayor, whose unusual forenames are those of two notorious fascist dictators, was born in the central department of Huánuco, 224 miles from the capital, Lima, according to his candidate profile.

In 2018, another Peruvian politician called Hitler won a mayoral election in the district of Yúngar, beating a candidate named Lenin.

Hitler Guesclin Alba Sánchez defeated Lenin Vladimir Rodríguez Valverde in the contest.

Alba told broadcasters during his campaing ‘I’m the good Hitler,’ according to local media.

Meanwhile, in Namibia, politician Adolf Hitler Uunona won his fifth consecutive local election last year.

Uunona, who received 85% of the vote in his constituency, has previously explained that he did not understand the significance of his name as a child.

‘As a child I saw it as a totally normal name,’ he told the BBC.

He later told German newspaper Bild that his father had named him after the Nazi leader, but probably did not understand what Adolf Hitler stood for.

‘It wasn’t until I was growing up that I realised: This man wanted to subjugate the whole world,’ he said.

‘I have nothing to do with any of these things.’

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