One Nation Victoria has disendorsed a candidate whose private social media account described Adolf Hitler as the “GOAT” and claimed that “importing Islam is making pedophilia legal”.

In a now-deleted social media post, the party’s candidate for Preston, Franco Guardiani, commented on a social media post on X asking people to: “Describe Hitler in one word? Be brutally honest.”

Guardiani then replied with the acronym GOAT, which stands for greatest of all time.

The party was made aware of Guardiani’s social media posts on Tuesday morning and disendorsed him a short time later. A party official discussed the posts with Guardiani and confirmed that they were real.

“At a time when Jewish Australians are experiencing unprecedented persecution, we are appalled that these comments have been made,” said the party’s Victorian leader, Warren Pickering.

“As soon as we became aware, we acted.…