There is no logic or any political rules to justify what he did.
Egypt's political rules make it hard for anyone other than the ruling party's candidate to stand, let alone win.
His biography, by Machiavelli, is the author's third famous book on political rule.
There is no political rule that a President must back off on a matter of principle even when, as here, all signs point to defeat.
In this book he says that everybody had to obey political rules and he was only doing what everyone else did.
He added that the party would share power with other forces "without giving up its political rule and responsibility" in Afghanistan.
His biography is Machiavelli's third famous book on political rule.
I don't see the church as a series of political rules.
He also had the advantage of a set of political rules quite different from today's standards.
It's a brave new world where the the old political rules no longer fit.
