Santi Vila

Santiago "Santi" Vila i Vicente (born 15 March 1973) is a Catalan historian and politician from Granollers, Spain. He is a member of the Catalan European Democratic Party, and was a councillor at Figueres from 1999 before becoming mayor from 2007 to 2012.[1]

This article uses Catalan naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Vila and the second or maternal family name is Vicente.
Santi Vila
Vila's official portrait
Mayor of Figueres
In office
2007–2012
Personal details
Born
Santiago Vila i Vicente

(1973-03-15) March 15, 1973
Granollers, Catalonia, Spain
NationalitySpanish
Political partyCatalan European Democratic Party
Alma mater
OccupationPolitician and historian

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. The trial began on 12 February 2019 and was remitted to decision on 12 June 2019.[3]

On 14 October 2019, Vila was sentenced to a year and 8 months of disqualification and a fine of 60.000€ for disobedience.[4][5]

See also

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. Trial of Catalan Independence Leaders Ends in Spain
  4. Catalan separatist leaders handed jail terms for independence bid
  5. Sentencia del ‘procés’: penas de 9 a 13 años para Junqueras y los otros líderes por sedición y malversación (in Spanish)
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