Adolf Hitler wins Namibian local election 5th time in a row

Namibian politician Adolf Hitler Uunona has retained his seat for the fifth time in a row, after reportedly winning the Wednesday local elections in his constituency, Euronews writes.

Uunona has represented Ompundja in the Oshana region since 2004 as a member of the South West Africa People’s Organisation.

While Namibia’s Electoral Commission has yet to release the official vote count, Uunona won by a large margin, according to multiple reports.

The 59-year-old has been a popular figure in the small northern constituency of less than 5,000 residents despite his namesake’s legacy.

In an interview with German newspaper Bild in 2020, Uunona said he had “nothing to do” with Nazi ideology. He also rejected any notion of world domination.

“It wasn’t until I was growing up that I realised: This man wanted to subjugate the whole world,” Uunona said. “I have nothing to do with any of these things.”

He explained that his father named him after Adolf Hitler, however, Uunona pointed out that “he probably did not understand” what it meant.

“As a child I saw it as a totally normal name,” Uunona insisted. “It does not mean I have Adolf Hitler’s character or resemble that of Adolf Hitler of Germany,” he told Namibian press in a separate interview.

The official, however, is not going to change his name because, as he says, it is “too late for that.”