Santi Vila
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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]
In this Catalan name, the first or paternal surname is Vila and the second or maternal family name is Vicente; both are generally joined by the conjunction "i".
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Santi Vila | |
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Mayor of Figueres | |
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Born | Santiago Vila i Vicente (1973-03-15) 15 March 1973 (age 51) Granollers, Catalonia, Spain |
Political party | Catalan European Democratic Party (2016–2018) |
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Occupation | Politician and historian |
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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]