I guess you haven't been paying attention.
Da big cheese hung his re-election on the strength of the economy. He knows all of ilk reveres money being rich making big bucks. He knows the more money they make the more certain they will vote for him again
Well now the economy is in the terlet. That's all he has to count on and with that gone he will get crushed.
So what's a few millions lives to give up to make sure he will survive?