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The average payment period to municipal providers was 20.57 days in July (07/09/2020)

| Murcia City Council is well below the national average, which is above 70 days | The City Council has streamlined payment to municipal providers, placing the average period during the month of July at 20.57 days, a period that is well below the national average for local entities, which is above the 70 days.

The data for July are the latest officially collected.The Consistory has promoted payments worth several tens of millions of euros to its suppliers in recent months.

In fact, since last March the payment period is bordering on 20 days.This trend is aligned with compliance with the provisions of the Economic and Social Reactivation Plan designed by the Government Team for the adoption of concrete measures that contribute to mitigating the effects of the socio-health crisis caused by the expansion of Covid- 19 is provoking.Liquidity for municipal companiesSimilarly, the agility that the City Council is printing to the payments it makes to its suppliers is a support mechanism for SMEs in the municipality, which allows them to have liquidity to maintain their activity.In this regard, the Councilor for Economic Management, Eduardo Martínez Oliva, has indicated that "from the Government Team we are going to make every effort to pay our suppliers as soon as possible because we try to inject liquidity into companies and thereby encourage them to the firms can continue to develop their work and keep the jobs they are responsible for.

The City Council will always articulate measures that favor the economic revitalization of the municipality.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia / Foto: archivo

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