A politician named after Adolf Hitler won a local election in Namibia.  However, he insists his agenda has “nothing to do” with Nazi ideology.

Adolf Hitler Uunona won a seat as a council member for the Ompundja constituency last week. He won with 85 percent of the vote, according to BBC. He is a member of the ruling South West Africa People’s Organization, also known as the SWAPO party.

Referring to his unfortunate name, Uunona insisted that it “doesn’t mean that I’m striving for world domination,” German newspaper Bild reported.

Uunona said that his father named him, though he “probably didn’t understand what Adolf Hitler stood for.”

“As a child I saw it as a totally normal name,” Uunona told the paper.

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

Still, Uunona said that he has no plans to change his name.