A man named Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores has secured a narrow victory in Peru’s local elections, exit polls show.
The candidate for the centre-left Ahora Nación party was elected mayor of Queropalca, a remote district in the Peruvian Andes.
Some 229 residents voted for the 45-year-old, putting him ahead of the second-place candidate from right-wing Renovación Popular Perú by just 25 votes.
In 20 years someone will proclaim “Hitler did a lot of good for his community” and people will be perplexed until the clarification
Let’s hope that will be the case with how things develop in the western political spectrum…