Santi Vila | |
Term Start: | 3 July 2017 |
Term End: | 26 October 2017 |
Successor: | Josep Rull |
Term Start1: | 14 January 2016 |
Term End1: | 5 July 2017 |
Successor1: | Lluís Puig |
Term Start2: | 27 December 2012 |
Term End2: | 14 January 2016 |
Successor2: | Josep Rull |
Term Start3: | 2007 |
Term End3: | 2012 |
Birth Name: | Santiago Vila i Vicente |
Birth Date: | 1973 3, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Granollers, Catalonia, Spain |
Nationality: | Spanish |
Party: | Catalan European Democratic Party (2016–2018) |
Occupation: | Politician 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] Later he held several positions in the Executive Council of Catalonia.
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]