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If I pay a mechanic to fix my car, that ain't them leading. If I hire a politician to enact my will, that isn't them leading. You don't have to be the one personally doing the job.
And just what is their job? You don't "hire them" to "enact [a specific] will", but to take charge of things for the body politic that their constituents can't individually solve as effectively. You elect them to analyse problems or opportunities for improvement, pool resources and insights from others, propose a course of action and coordinate the collective effort to solve them.
That is leadership. It's not rulership, nor is it strict servitude, though it is a service to their community by leading the way to improvement.
To enact the platform we agreed serves our will when we elected them. Electing them is hiring them.
That doesn't really change the nature of their job. They're not the ones carrying out whatever change they were elected or hired to enact. They were elected to coordinate and oversee the process, to direct the efforts, to make decisions about dealing with whatever challenges crop up.
They were elected to lead the enactment of that platform.