A new Hitler came to power in 2026 – by a margin of 25 votes

In the local elections in the Krupalka district of Peru, the candidate Hitler Mussolini Simeón Flores, 45, of the center-left party "Ahora Nasio," won with 229 votes out of about 700 voters. He defeated his rival by a margin of 25 votes. The district has fewer than a thousand residents.

In the local elections held in the Krupalka district, located in the central Huánuco department in the Peruvian Andes, the candidate Hitler Mussolini Simeón Flores won. Flores, 45, ran for the center-left party "Ahora Nasio" and received 229 votes, about 34% of all votes. He defeated by a margin of 25 votes the candidate who came in second for the right-wing party "Renovación Popular." Slightly more than 700 voters participated in the election campaign, out of fewer than a thousand residents in the district. The article notes that similar cases of politicians bearing names with similar historical significance have been documented in the past in Peru and other countries, among them the election of Hitler Gusklin Alba Sánchez as mayor of Yungar in 2018, Hitler Saavedra Castarnoque to the Peruvian parliament in 2021, and Adolf Hitler Uunona in local elections in Namibia in 2020.