Santi Vila

In this Catalan name, the family name is Vila.

Santi Vila
File:Retrat oficial del Conseller d'Empresa i Coneixement, Santi Vila.jpg Vila's official portrait
Mayor of Figueres
In office 2007–2012
Personal details
Born	Santiago Vila i Vicente (1973-03-15) 15 March 1973 Granollers, Catalonia, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Political party	Catalan European Democratic Party (2016–2018)
Alma mater	University of Girona Autonomous University of Barcelona
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.

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. He was pre-trial jailed just a night. The trial began on 12 February 2019 and was remitted to decision on 12 June 2019.

On 14 October 2019, Vila was sentenced to a year and 8 months of disqualification and a fine of €60.000 for disobedience.

See also

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