If you're in a position like that you cannot chill. You either cling to power at all cost or you're going to end up getting beaten to death in a ditch. No in between. I really hope it's the latter for those bastards.

There are huge economic advantages to their inner circles that only come with them being in complete control. These people are uses to... a certain way of doing "business", if you can call it that. It's all basically corruption and abuse of their position for monetary gain. A lot of cronies also prefer them over a democratic government because they can just bribe their way to get their work done. I had even heard a bit of whining even from average business owners over difficulty in procuring licenses and permissions during the demographic government rule. Granted most of them want demographics governments but some still wanna bribe their way in like before.