Santi Vila
Santi Vila (born Granollers, 15 March 1973) also known as Santi Vila i Vicente is a Catalan historian and politician from Catalonia. He is a member of the Catalan European Democratic Party.
He 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.
He's a divorced, openly gay man.[3]
References
- ^ "Santi Vila, consejero de Empresa y Conocimiento". Generalitat de Cataluña (in European Spanish). Generalitat de Cataluña. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
- ^ Newton, Creede. "Catalonia: Judge jails eight ousted ministers". www.aljazeera.com. Aljazeera. Retrieved 2 November 2017..
- ^ "Santi Vila: así es el lado más personal del verso suelto del "procés", divorciado y gay". El Mundo (in Spanish). 4 November 2017.