Ward 5 Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie has filed paperwork to enter another local D.C. election: this time, an At-Large D.C. Council seat. The news, first reported by longtime D.C. journalist and political analyst Tom Sherwood, comes two months after McDuffie was forced to suspend his campaign for Attorney General after one of his opponents successfully challenged his eligibility for the office.

McDuffie decided not to run for reelection to his Ward 5 Council seat when he ran for Attorney General earlier this year; State Board of Education Member Zachary Parker won the Democratic primary for the Ward 5 position. And because the Democratic primary for the At-Large Council seat already concluded last month, with incumbent Anita Bonds emerging victorious, McDuffie needed to switch his party affiliation from Democratic to Independent in order to run for the At-Large seat.

He will now face off against two of his colleagues on the Council: Bonds and At-Large Councilmember Elissa Silverman, who is an Independent. Sherwood reported that McDuffie will focus specifically on defeating Silverman, not Bonds. Fred Hill, Joe Little, Karim D. Marshall, and Graham McLaughlin are the other Independent candidates in the race so far.

The candidates in the general election for the At-Large race are running for two slots on the Council. At least one of those slots needs to go to a  candidate who is not running as a Democrat, because two of the D.C. Council’s seats are off-limits to the city’s majority party, and Independent At-Large Councilmember Christina Henderson is currently occupying one of them.

McDuffie had been considered one of the frontrunners in the Attorney General’s race — until his opponent Bruce Spiva formally challenged his candidacy, arguing that McDuffie had not “actively engaged” as an attorney in D.C. for at least 5 of the last 10 years, as D.C. law requires. A series of rulings from the D.C. Board of Elections and Court of Appeals sided with Spiva, effectively killing McDuffie’s candidacy.

McDuffie’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday morning, but the Councilmember has previously indicated that another run for office this cycle might be a possibility.

When he suspended his run for Attorney General in May, he said he remained open to running for office in the future but declined to offer further details on his plans. He told the crowd gathered at the Big Chair in Anacostia that being kept off the ballot in the Attorney General’s race had “only deepened [his] resolve” to serve the District.

“It’s only deepened my commitment to represent the voice of the voiceless,” McDuffie said.

On Friday, in a letter to supporters of his campaign for Attorney General, McDuffie hinted further at news to come.

“As I mentioned when I ended my candidacy for Attorney General,” he wrote, “this marks the end of a chapter but also the beginning of a new one.”