Santiago "Santi" Vila i Vicente (born 15 March 1973) is a Catalan historian and politician from

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, Spain. He was a member of the

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, and was a councillor at

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from 1999 before becoming mayor from 2007 to 2012. Later he held several positions in the

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. On 2 November 2017 members of the

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were arrested for sedition, unlike the others Vila was offered bail of €50,000 as he had resigned before the Catalan

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.. He was pre-trial jailed just a night. The

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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.Sentencia del ‘procés’: penas de 9 a 13 años para Junqueras y los otros líderes por sedición y malversación

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