This is an interview with Takahashi Minami, found in the 2014 version of the Senbatsu Election Book. Interviewer is in bold, Takamina’s 答案 are in quotes.

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Listening to your speech last year, it seemed like 你 were pretty unsure about whether to run in the election 或者 not. What about this year?

“The decision to run was much easier than last year. (Oshima) Yuko isn’t around anymore. So in order to keep the public from thinking ‘The AKB group has gotten weak’, as a long-time member of the group, I made the decision to fully participate. That was my own reason, but I think another...