Polls anticipate a victory for Adolf Hitler. Far from what one might think at first, this is not news from Germany in 1930, but rather current events in a country in southern Africa.
He November 26in Namibia, regional elections are held in which is expected that the leader of the South West African People’s Organization (SWAPO), Adolf Hitler Uunona, once again obtains the majority of the votes in the district of Ompundja.
His political ideologies have nothing to do with those of Nazism and the only fight he maintains with his party is anti-apartheidseeking the independence of Namibia and against its illegal occupation.
Uunona, 59, is set to win for the fourth time in a region that was a German colony until 1915 when, after the First World War, they managed to expel their troops. For this reason, the german names like Adolf are common among the South African population.
The Namibian obtained 85% of the votes in 2020, a total of 1,196 compared to 213 for his opponent. This Wednesday the results are expected to be in the same direction as four years ago, but with a less overwhelming majority.
Only in private
“My father gave me that name and probably didn’t understand what Adolf Hitler represented,” he noted in an interview in the German newspaper Bild. In fact, he explains that, as a child, he didn’t do it either, since he saw it as “something normal.”
It was when he grew up that he understood that he was the “dictator responsible for the devastation of Europe.” “He wanted to dominate the whole world and I didn’t I have nothing to do with that,” he insists.
Despite the controversy, the Namibian politician insists that will not change his name —although if I had had a say at birth, I would not have accepted it—since this appears in all official documents.
He maintains that in public he avoids using the word Hitler, in fact he signs his name as Adolf H., although he confesses that His wife does refer to him that way in private..
Adolf Hitler’s electoral propaganda Uunona.
What’s more, when he ran in the last elections for Ompundja councilor in 2020, the election posters said “Adolf Uunona” and it was not until after the final results were published that his full name was revealed.
In statements to France PressAdolf Hitler regrets that his name has jumped to all the media and that, instead, his political objectives are being left in second place: “to govern for the good of the country.” “There’s no reason for us to be sitting here talking about my name,” he snapped.
Again Adol Hitler
Uunona is not the only one with that name who has run at the polls in the 21st century. In the Meghalaya district electionsnortheast India, held in 2013another call was also presented Adolf Lu Hitler.
“I am aware that at one point in history Adolf Hitler was the most hated person in the world for the genocide of the Jews, but my father added ‘Lu’ in the middle and that is why I am different,” he told the newspaper. The Guardian.