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Leftwing Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores beats far-right candidate in election in remote district of Andes
A candidate named Hitler Mussolini Simeón Flores has won a mayoral election in Peru by just 25 votes. He is not the first person with a name associated with Nazi Germany to win elected office in recent years.
Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores won just 229 votes in a remote Andean district, enough to edge his rival by 25; the unusual name has drawn attention far beyond Peru, where another candidate named Hitler once campaigned against a man named Lenin