She was elected Councilwoman for Santa Cruz de Lorica from 1990 to 1992, and went on to become the heiress to her father"s political career, in 1998 when she was elected to the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia for the Liberal Party. Her father Francisco José Jattin Safar, had been a Chamber Representative from 1990 to 1996 when he lost his investiture for being linked in the Proceso 8000.
Complutense University of Madrid.
Parapolitics scandal
In 2008 the Supreme Court of Colombia ran preliminary investigations into Jattin for links to Salvatore Mancuso and Rodrigo Tovar Pupo alias "Jorge 40", both paramilitary chiefs and drug traffickers extradited to the United States but could not find conclusive evidence to charge her for anything. On 11 May 2009 the Supreme Court issued a warrant for her arrest for links with paramilitarism. During her arrest, her father Francisco José Jattin, suffered a heart attack and died four days later in a hospital.
She was replaced in Congress by Jairo Mantilla Colmenares.
Electoral history.
Because the Supreme Court investigates all charged members of congress, Jattin renounced her seat in Congress on 13 May 2009, thus transferring the process from the Supreme Court to the Office of the Attorney General of Colombia, however the Supreme Court later ruled that all cases pertaining to congresspersons and linked by parapolitics would be prosecuted by the Supreme Court whether they had renounced their seat or not. On September 2010, she was called in for questioning by the Court for calumny and slander for statements made to the press when she was arrested. She accused the Court and its members of kidnapping, and persecution among other things, she later recanted her statement but the court choose to continue with their charge.
