translated from Spanish: Supreme Court calls for dialogue amid social crisis

Lamberto Cisternas, spokesman for the Supreme Court, referred on Monday to the social crisis the country is going through. In this regard, the Minister called for the dialogue to be opened to find the necessary solutions that will end the conflict that will now be fulfilled one month since its outbreak. “Ministers believe that the resolution of issues revolves around dialogue,” he said. With this, consulted on what the exit would be and whether it would be a Constituent Assembly, Cisternas insisted that “you will see the various actors which of these paths are found”. He also read a statement “in the face of the events of public connotation in the country the Supreme Court meeting in Plenary agreed to express: 1o that in a democratic State all people have the inalienable, unrescriptible and indispensable right to express their opinion on matters of public relevance and which relate to the work of the State as a whole, in a climate of mutual respect;2. That the judiciary has an inesthefiable duty to precaution all the freedoms, rights and guarantees of individuals recognized in our republican tradition and in international treaties;3 that, in this sense, it is a duty to highlight the effort and dedication of the members of the Judiciary to keep the courts of the country in office, ensuring this way the rights of all people, with effective access to justice;4 that the work carried out in the performance of each of our functions must continue to be provided with independence, impartiality, political disregard, equanimity and full equality before the law and justice;5that we recognize in the dialogue of social and institutional actors and all Chileans the form and procedure to obtain the best solutions for our country, always seeking those that conceal greater unity for the institutional channels or those which the competent authorities have in accordance with the current legal order, which must be respected in this citizen conversation always in an atmosphere of peace, which has as its only north the common good and of all members of the nation.”

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