Public institutions continued without disbursing their resources. ComexPerú reported that as of September 2025, more than S/42,362 million public works paralyzed at the national level.
This amount corresponds to 2,215 projects. The union specified that the largest investment committed and that was not executed corresponded to the regional governments with S/16,686 million, followed by the national government with S/16,636 million and the local governments with S/9,004 million).
However, if only the number of projects is taken into account, the municipalities top the list with 1,576 works that were not executed until the ninth month of the year.
“Now larger projects are being paralyzed, due to technical limitations of the subnational teams. Above all, in terms of housing, construction and sanitation where regional governments added 19 additional paralyzed projects compared to the previous year,” said the union’s Economic Studies analyst, Daniel Najarro.
PARALYZED WORKS
According to ComexPerú, the regions with the most unexecuted projects are Arequipa with 126 works amounting to S/7,579 million); La Libertad (73 works detained for S/5,590 million); Lima (176 for S/4,706 million); Piura (119 for S/3,887 million); and Cajamarca (139 for S/2,826 million).
By sector, transportation and communications concentrate a large part of the amount committed with S/11,827 million. Housing, construction and sanitation continue on the list with S/7,577 million, health with S/7,420 million, education with S/5,057 million and agriculture with S/1,473 million.
The union, with data from the Comptroller’s Office, indicated that 26.4% of the paralyzed works are in this situation due to contractual breaches, 20.8% due to lack of resources and 9.8% due to deficiencies in the technical file.
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