It’s the name no one desires to read on a ballot paper.
Adolf Hitler is a candidate one other election, but this time hundreds of miles from Germany.
This time it isn’t the Adolf Hitler, but Adolf Hitler Uunona, who’s standing in a council election in Namibia.
His name may also sound familiar because Mr Uunona, 59, first stood within the local elections in 2020 within the Ompundja constituency.
He received 1,196 votes, winning a convincing 85 per cent of the vote to land himself a spot on the regional council.
That margin of victory is lower than the 98.8 per cent share of the vote the German Adolf Hitler won within the country’s rigged 1936 parliamentary election.
Now, Mr Uunona is running for re-election in Ompundja for the Swapo party, with the vote set to be held on November 26.
Early projections suggest the politician is more likely to retain his seat.
In a far cry from the genocidal dictator, Adolf Hitler Uunona is well respected in his constituency as an anti-apartheid campaigner.
In an interview with German newspaper Bild, he insisted he had ‘nothing to do’ with Nazi ideology.
He said his father had named him after the Nazi leader, but that ‘he probably didn’t understand what Adolf Hitler stood for’.
Mr Uunona said he saw it ‘as a very normal name’ as a baby but only later realised the horrors committed by his namesake as he grew up.
Germanic names are common in Namibia, which was a part of a German territory called German South West Africa from 1884 to 1915.
It got here under South African control before gaining independence in 1990, but still has many German-named towns and a small German-speaking community.
The German dictator hit the headlines earlier this month when scientists revealed Hitler had a genetic disorder that can lead to a micro-penis.
DNA evaluation of blood taken from the sofa where Adolf Hitler died suggests he could have suffered from a genetic disorder that forestalls puberty, lowers testosterone and sex drive.
By analysing a chunk of Hitler’s DNA, researchers found that Hitler had Kallmann Syndrome, which is revealed in an upcoming Channel 4 documentary, ‘Hitler’s DNA: Blueprint Of A Dictator’.
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