The public sector is once again paying later than the private sector. Specifically, in 2024, public administrations paid on average after 67 days. This not only means having increased the payment period to companies by twelve days compared to 2023, but also exceeding the payment period of the private sector by three days, as reported this Thursday by the Multisectorial Platform against Late Payments (PMcM) led by the president of Pimec, Antoni Cañete, through a new report on the situation of late payments. This situation, in which the public sector pays later than the private sector, has not occurred since 2014, when the State was still in the midst of the Great Recession.