Sorsele municipality and Malå municipality have challenged each other in the car on Monday - not least the municipal councils Kjell Öjeryd and Lennart Gustavsson as well as the municipal leaders Charlotta Tarras-Wahlberg and Jim Lundmark who have personally challenged each other. It's about cycling, or walking, the longest.

Kjell Öjeryd (V), Sorsele, has four miles to work. He usually takes the car, a Volvo V90, but today it became a bike.

- I left at five this morning and then it was zero. And I can conclude that today's saddles are not made for us on the border with the pension, says the local council.

Tested electric bike for the first time

The Malå municipal council, Lennart Gustavsson (V), had a slightly shorter distance to cycle to work: 1.5 km, and cycled electric bicycle.

- It was the first time in my life I cycled on such a thing, I thought "this will never go well", but it did.

Usually Lennart Gustavssom drives to work with his Volkswagen Golf TDI.

But to just park the car one day makes no difference, should you not look at long-term changes?

- Of course it doesn't make a big difference in the long run, but we do this to influence attitudes. In the long term we need to look at other solutions, digital meeting places and public transport for example, says Lennart Gustavsson.