It is the name nobody wants to read on a ballot paper.

Adolf Hitler is a candidate another election, but this time thousands of miles from Germany.

This time it is not the Adolf Hitler, but Adolf Hitler Uunona, who is standing in a council election in Namibia.

His name might also sound familiar because Mr Uunona, 59, first stood in the local elections in 2020 in the Ompundja constituency.

He received 1,196 votes, winning a resounding 85 per cent of the vote to land himself a place on the regional council. That margin of victory is less than the 98.8 per cent share of the vote the German Adolf Hitler won in 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.

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