Evo Morales is now on Argentine soil. The former president of Bolivia, who fled his country after fraudulent elections, arrived in Buenos Aires on Thursday (December 12th) and will settle in the country, announced Felipe Sola, the new head of Argentine diplomacy.
"He comes to stay in Argentina as an asylum seeker and will then be granted refugee status," he told the news channel TN.
In November, Argentina's President-elect, Alberto Fernandez, voted in favor of granting asylum to Evo Morales, who, according to him, was the victim of a "coup d'état". He has since been appointed head of state on Tuesday.
"More at home here than in Mexico"
Lacked by the police and the army, Evo Morales was forced to resign on November 10, after three weeks of demonstrations to denounce fraught elections, according to the opposition and the Organization of American States ( OAS). The former president was seeking a fourth consecutive term after nearly 14 years at the helm of Bolivia.
Denouncing a "coup d'état", he fled to Mexico, led by a leftist president, Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador. After nearly a month on Mexican territory, Evo Morales traveled to Cuba on Friday, from where he left for Buenos Aires. The Argentine minister then assured that the former Bolivian president "felt more at home here than in Mexico".
The two children of Evo Morales, Evaliz and Alvaro, arrived in the Argentine capital from La Paz at the end of November. Meanwhile, the Bolivian parliament has passed a law calling for new presidential and legislative elections, without Evo Morales who can not run.
With AFP
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