Bolivia will issue an arrest warrant for former president Morales on charges of inciting rebellion in the next few days, according to interim President Anez.

"He can return home at any time. He leaves because he wants to. The arrest warrant will be announced in the next few days because we have made the charges," Bolivian interim President Jeanine Anez said. via said.

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Morales (center) arrived in the capital Buenos Aires, Argentina on December 12 Photo: AFP

The statement came after Argentina's Interior Ministry announced that former Bolivian President Evo Morales had been granted asylum in the country and was completing procedures to become an official refugee.

Morales, the Bolivian leader for 14 years, resigned on November 10 after a large-scale protest erupted to protest his re-election for a fourth term. Morales arrived in Mexico as a refugee and claimed to be the victim of a coup. He left Mexico for Argentina's capital Buenos Aires on 12 December after Alberto Fernandez, a center-left thinker and ally of Morales, took office as President of Argentina.

Many of Morales's supporters, mostly farmers and indigenous people, took to the streets to protest against interim President Anez, killing at least 29 people in clashes with security forces. The provisional Bolivian government filed a lawsuit in federal court, accusing Morales of "inciting and terrorizing".

Bolivian Interior Minister Arturo Murillo accused Morales of trying to "choke" Bolivian cities by calling for supporters to block important roads, putting people in some places at risk. lack of food and fuel. The former Bolivian president denied Murillo's allegations, calling it an "smear" act to prevent him from returning home.