Santi Vila
Vila's official portrait
Mayor of Figueres
In office
2007–2012
Personal details
Born
Santiago Vila i Vicente

(1973-03-15) 15 March 1973 (age 51)
Granollers, Catalonia, Spain
Political partyCatalan European Democratic Party (2016–2018)
Alma mater
OccupationPolitician and historian

Santiago "Santi" Vila i Vicente (born 15 March 1973) is a Catalan historian and politician from Granollers, Spain. He was a member of the Catalan European Democratic Party, and 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. 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 European 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 (Published 2019)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 29 April 2023.
  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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