Amerion, one of the two candidates to succeed Somyrion as Delegate of the South Pacific, made a possibly fatal gaffe when they admitted to not doing math.

The gaffe took place during an impromptu town hall, where the Admiral General was asked questions by senior government officials; Minister of Foreign Affairs Jay Coop asked them for help in solving a Navier-Stokes equation, while Chief Justice Kris Kringle asked them how long they would take to solve Fermat's Last Theorem. Rather than directly answering the questions, as any Admiral General would, Amerion simply said "I don't do math", since they "have people for that".

Experts are already wondering if this gaffe could prove fatal for Amerion. The moment has already been seized by the RON campaign, which released a statement today saying that "this only proves that, beyond the graphics and all the fanfare, Amerion's platform has little regard for the struggles of regular folk who need to do math by themselves". A survey ran by renowned elections expert P. Hony shows that 43% of the electorate are disturbed by the revelation that Amerion doesn't do math, while only 29% are undisturbed by the revelation.

It is clear that the Amerion campaign will have to take steps to regain the public's trust in time for the crucial forum voting round.

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