Santi Vila Explained

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]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Santi Vila, consejero de Empresa y Conocimiento. Generalitat de Cataluña. Generalitat de Cataluña. 2 November 2017. es-ES.
  2. Web site: Newton. Creede. Catalonia: Judge jails eight ousted ministers. www.aljazeera.com. Aljazeera. 2 November 2017. .
  3. Web site: Trial of Catalan Independence Leaders Ends in Spain (Published 2019) . . https://web.archive.org/web/20230429045317/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/12/world/europe/spain-catalan-leaders-trial.html . 29 April 2023 . live .
  4. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/spain-court-hands-catalan-leaders-13-years-jail-191014073841612.html Catalan separatist leaders handed jail terms for independence bid
  5. https://elpais.com/politica/2019/10/14/actualidad/1571033446_440448.html Sentencia del ‘procés’: penas de 9 a 13 años para Junqueras y los otros líderes por sedición y malversación