A political leader can be a collective body with shifting individual spokesmen

Evidence

However, the “leader” in politics may be an individual, but also be a more or less numerous political body: in the latter case, unity of purpose will be achieved by an individual (or by a small inner group, and within that small group by an individual) who may change from time to time even though the group remains united and consistent in its on-going activity. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 942

Categorization

• XREF: The idea of leadership dispersed across a changing body anticipates how collective political will gets personified — relevant to later questions of who ‘speaks for’ a community in Islamophobia debates, e.g. the figurehead vs. the movement. — connects to: Worker councils structurally rotated leadership to keep power with workers. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 538