Long-serving Logan councillor Darren Power to stand for mayor of Logan in March 2020.
The seven were automatically suspended,leaving Darren Power,a Logan councillor of 22 years,as one of only four remaining councillors. Without enough councillors to form a quorum and hold a meeting,the council was sacked and replaced with an administrator.
All eight councillors have denied any wrongdoing and are fighting the charges.
"I am worried about the city,"Mr Power said on Sunday as he confirmed he would run for mayor.
"I think we have gone backwards in the past four years and I think we really need someone who knows what they are doing."
Mr Power said he was also running to represent many Logan City Council staff who had disagreed with the direction the council was taking and subsequently resigned.
He was elected to the council in 1997 and to Logan's Interim Management Committee in June 2019 when the council was placed in the hands of administrator Tamara O'Shea,the former director-general of the Department of Local Government,Racing and Multicultural Affairs.
Mr Power,who previously held the council portfolio of development,health and environment,said Logan ratepayers would elect nine new councillors at the March 2020 elections.