Left-wing candidate Hitler Mussolini wins local vote in Peru

Peruvian man named Hitler Mussolini has been elected mayor of a small Andean district after winning a local election by a narrow margin on a left-wing party ticket. Hitler Mussolini Simeón Flores, 45, won the mayoral race in Queropalca, a district in the province of Lauricocha in the Huánuco department north of Lima, running for the centre-left Ahora Nación party. He received 229 votes — 34.5% of the 663 valid ballots in Queropalca — ahead of his closest rival, Gaspar Benilde Osorio Zambrano of the Popular Renewal Peru party, who took 204 votes, or 30.8%. The district has an estimated population of just over 730, according to 2024 official data. Simeón Flores also manages the Simeon Sac investment group in Pillco Marca, in the same department.