Municipal council apologizes for early April Fool’s joke

Municipal council apologizes for early April Fools joke

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full screenMalå’s municipal councilor tried to be fooled with an April Fool’s joke about cheaper electricity prices, but sent out the press release a day too early. Archive image. Photo: Janerik Henriksson/TT

Malå’s municipal councilor Lennart Gustavsson (V) wrote in a press release that was sent out to the media on Friday that the electricity price would be lowered in the municipality on April 1. But it was all an April Fool’s joke that was sent out a day too early, reports SVT Nyheter Västerbotten.

“Skellefte Kraft intends to annually draw a municipality where the company’s customers receive a fifty percent electricity subsidy for one year. The lot has fallen on Malå for the first year,” the press release said, among other things.

– It came a day too early. It’s my fault. I apologize, says Lennart Gustavsson, to SVT and continues:

– It was of course a mistake to send out a day too early. It was a way to add some humor and maybe a laugh or two.

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