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In a mayoral election in the Quero Palca district of Huánuco region, central Peru, a candidate named Hitler Mussolini Simeón Flores won the seat. He took 229 votes (34.54%) in a tight race, finishing just 25 votes ahead of the runner-up. He had previously belonged to Keiko Fujimori’s right-wing party before leaving it in 2025 to run for the left-wing party Ahora Nación. On 5ch, the thread lit up over the fact that Japan is missing from this “Axis powers” lineup, the South American custom of naming children after historical figures, and the fact that more than 500 people in Peru are reportedly named after Dragon Ball characters.
According to Infobae on the 9th (1), left-wing candidate Hitler (locally pronounced “Hitler”) Mussolini Simeón Flores has been declared the winner of the mayoral election in the Quero Palca district of Lauricocha province, Huánuco region, central Peru. In Peru’s regional and municipal elections, some candidates have drawn attention purely for their unusual names, and he is one of them. His name overlaps with the Nazi German leader and the founder of Italian fascism, which has made him a talking point.
Running for the Ahora Nación party, he won 229 votes, or 34.54% of the valid votes. Brazil’s CBN (2) reported him as a left-wing candidate, noting that he himself stated when announcing his candidacy that he had previously belonged to Keiko Fujimori’s right-wing party before leaving it in 2025.
Second place went to Renovación Popular with 204 votes (30.77%), and third to País Para Todos with 187 votes (28.20%). The gap between first and second place was just 25 votes, and only 42 votes separated first from third — a genuinely close race.
Source: news.jp / Original article here
What people said
Let's do it without Japan this time!
Pathetic that you didn't even notice the Fujimori connection
Japan: right-wing
Japan never follows the rest of the world, no matter when you check
Say that after you've looked at the UK and Germany
Even beats Japan's infamous "Akuma-chan" (a baby literally named "Devil") case.
What were the parents even thinking?
What on earth
And he's left-wing with a name like that?
Adolf Hitler himself was actually from Australia, you know
In regions that were once under Nazi German rule,
many people probably changed their surname out of fear of the stigma —
though of course not everyone did.
Whoa
So he moved from Australia to Germany, huh (lol)
Don't need a reply, just let me say this —
"-tralia"? lmao (mocking the Australia/Austria mix-up above)
Example: Bismarck Barreto Faria
Well, there are people out there named "Otani" and "Goku" too, so…
He'd probably get in these days, lol
But back in Granny Merkel's time, he definitely would've been turned away lmao
Actually, come to think of it, naming someone "Hideki Saijo" right after Hideki Tojo is pretty bold
And Hideki Matsui even went and played for the Yankees
Man, South America is really something else
https://www.asahi.com/sp/articles/ASKDC4WTVKDCUHBI015.html
Named after Dragon Ball: many in Peru, including a "Frieza" too
> "Gohan," "Krillin," "Piccolo" — A Peruvian government agency survey has found that more than 500 people in the country have been given names inspired by characters from the hit Japanese anime "Dragon Ball."
The South American version of a "DQN name" (Japanese slang for a tacky, over-the-top baby name) lol
Apparently around Bohemia it was pronounced "Hiedler"
With an Austrian/German accent, that becomes "Hitler"
Wait, that's an Australian accent? lol
Apparently that looks pretty shocking from a European point of view
Heads up — that's Ichiro Tominaga (a cartoonist famous for a goofy salute-like pose often mistaken for a Nazi gesture)
Background and talking points
Peru has a distinctly South American naming culture, where naming children after historical figures or famous foreigners isn’t unusual. There are even reports that more than 500 Peruvians carry Dragon Ball character names (Krillin, Piccolo, and others), and the name “Hitler Mussolini” in this story appears to stem from that same cultural tradition. The “left-wing” label in the article refers to the political stance of Ahora Nación, the party the winning candidate currently belongs to — it has nothing to do with the actual ideology of the historical Hitler or Mussolini. The thread did spark a debate over whether Nazism counts as politically “left” or “right,” but since that’s not a question with a settled academic answer, and neutrality couldn’t be maintained, it isn’t reflected in this article. It’s also worth noting this election was for mayor of a single Peruvian district (Quero Palca) — not a national office — a point that’s easy to misread.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News Speed+) thread “Peru mayoral election: left-wing “Hitler Mussolini” wins.”
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