I really enjoyed the idea of making the Argonath's Government a public possibility.
Many of you will say that "I don't got any personality". False.
As someone said, Gandalf doesn't have enough time to do Presidential stuff at all. You rarely see him online.
A fair election voted by all citizens with passports, on one who candidate himself for President (or any other rank in the political system) would be really great.
The sense of making part of the story of the state, electing an responsible President/Mayor/Governor (I'm not saying that Gandalf and the other people related to the political is irresponsible) which could be great for the State.
All this political thing should be all RPed. No changing laws (server rules) and this "owner server stuff". As Merc said before, will rise a roleplay evolving political conflict, kidnap threat. Also, I think that will rise even more the though from civilians to do their best, because one day, they could try to be elected as Mayor/President/blablabla.
So, summarizing, I agree with the change of the Politics System.