Santi Vila

In this Catalan name, the first or paternal surname is Vilaand the second or maternal family name is Vicente; both are generally joined by the conjunction "i".

• University of Girona
• Autonomous University of Barcelona

Santi Vila
Official portrait, 2016
Minister of Enterprise and Knowledge of Catalonia
In office 3 July 2017 –26 October 2017
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

• 2017–18 Spanish constitutional crisis
• Trial of Catalonia independence leaders

References

1. "Santi Vila, consejero de Empresa y Conocimiento". Generalitat de Cataluña (in European Spanish). Generalitat de Cataluña. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. 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)