According to sources, in the summer, the communications manager of Flen municipality emailed the company behind the advertisement sign, which removed the specific message. The municipality later claimed that the goal was not to get the advertisement removed. However, the Parliamentary Ombudsman (JO) does not agree with the municipality's claim.
' The Parliamentary Ombudsman further describes the email as 'pressure' and considers the contact inappropriate. The specific content of the advertisement that was removed remains unknown, as does the exact wording of the email sent by the communications manager. The JO's decision highlights a conflict over municipal authority and free expression in the context of local advertising.
It is difficult to understand the email in any other way than that the municipality questioned the publication of the specific advertisement.