Yesim Candan experiences an explosion of anger. In conversation with HP/DeTijd, the one-day democrat really goes all out on Johan Derksen. “It’s pure character assassination!” she shouts.
Nowadays, anyone and everyone can only get a seat in the House of Representatives. Lucille Werner spent fifteen years digging around in the Lingo ball pit and then suddenly woke up in the CDA faction. And then Catherine Keyl; she casually said this week that she would renounce a seat in parliament. Do they sometimes see this as an outing?
Crazy with duck face
Yesim Candan then. She is best known as the bestie by Ferry Doedens and her one-off candle performance in Today Inside. She also wrote pieces for the RTL Nieuws website. Anyway, a kind of celebrity after all. And voila: she was immediately on the D66 electoral list last month. Still in eleventh place.
After 24 hours, Yesim resigned again because all kinds of rarities were leaked. The most cooked? That she flirted with Forum for Democracy. On Today Inside, Johan Derksen said that he does not understand why Yesim got on the D66 list in the first place, because she is said to be a ‘crazy’ with a duck face.
Yesim completely furious
Well, Yesim is really furious about that. “I’ve had so many threats. Intimidation. They even came to my house. And I was never afraid. But I now came to a point… It started that Tuesday, when I was really afraid for the first time in my life. That I was just discussed in such a dirty way at Today Inside, no: finished.”
‘Pure character assassination’, Yesim calls it in conversation with HP/DeTijd. Eh, isn’t she exaggerating a bit? Her interviewer Ton F. van Dijk: “I saw that broadcast. It was clear that they were critical of you. But I didn’t think it was a different broadcast than usual…”
‘Not normal!’
Yesim thinks so. “After the infamous candle incident, where I was critical of Johan Derksen, someone was allowed to call me a ‘duck face’ in that program. Since when is it normal for women to be criticized for their appearance? Does that also happen to men?”
She continues her tirade: “Maybe I was indeed naive, but I didn’t expect this. My character was murdered. I experienced that as very intense. Why don’t they have to be socially accountable for this behavior, but I do for an old column?”