Koç calls politics “extremely fun, also nationally.” She wants to “engage with society and the community.”
Koç reacted strongly earlier this year when notes by former scout Kajsa Ollongren, which spoke of a “function elsewhere” for then CDA member Omtzigt, were captured by an ANP photographer. “So these political leaders have an exit function for a hardworking MP who has devoted his soul and salvation to our rule of law,” Koç wrote on Twitter at the time. “Fortunately, they are not about that, but there are 342,000 voters whom he does not abandon. @PieterOmtzigt.”
The “function elsewhere” affair had a major impact on Koç, she says. “It was very bizarre. You don’t believe it and think: what is happening here? I was quite upset about it.” Not just because it was her own husband. “I fled from a country where you can’t really speak of a rule of law,” says Koç, who comes from Turkey. “What happened went against my image of the Netherlands. That really hits the spot.”
