Santi Vila

Santi Vila's Official Portrait as regional minister of Enterprise and Knowledge.

Santi Vila (born Granollers, 15 March 1973) also known as Santi Vila i Vicente is a Catalan historian and politician from Catalonia. He is a member of the Catalan European Democratic Party.

He was a councillor at Figueres from 1999 before becoming Mayor from 2007 to 2012.[1]

On 2 November 2017 members of the Generalitat de Catalunya were arrested for sedition, unlike the others Vila was offered bail of €50,000 as he had resigned before the Catalan unilateral declaration of independence.[2] He was pre-trial jailed just a night.

He's a divorced, openly gay man.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Santi Vila, consejero de Empresa y Conocimiento". Generalitat de Cataluña (in Spanish). Generalitat de Cataluña. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
  2. ↑ Newton, Creede. "Catalonia: Judge jails eight ousted ministers". www.aljazeera.com. Aljazeera. Retrieved 2 November 2017. .
  3. ↑ "Santi Vila: así es el lado más personal del verso suelto del "procés", divorciado y gay". El Mundo (in Spanish). 4 November 2017.
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