[1] Martens was a member of Amsterdam city council.
[3] During a debate about the government's education budget in February 2024, Martens successfully added an amendment to the Tertiary Education and Research Act, allowing institutions of higher education to limit foreign students, to the budget bill.
The amendment achieved its goal by enabling them to declare an admission stop for the English track of a study program.
She proposed that its member-based broadcast associations would be replaced by several "media houses", representing different ideologies.
Management and support functions would be consolidated under a single umbrella organization.