The only vision any Thai politician has is self enrichment.
None care a hoot about the populous, just get to the top spot and increase the bank balance.
I had Thai friends who [pre-covid when things were normal] would frequent late night opening bars.
Yet they wouldn't go out til after midnight, keeping bars open that long doesn't increase profit, it just makes opening time more flexible.
So the emergency decree is necessary to help curb Covid while Phipat advocates opening bars until 4am....
He has no intentions of stepping down Wednesday and will use the emergency decree to curb the street protests which will surely follow.