It’s a such a small aspect of the film, I don’t really care that it’s confusing. I’ll take the ST. The politics in the PT were not only boring, they often didn’t make sense and they didn’t add much to the story.
I’ve never really understood this complaint. There are only two “political” scenes in the PT, one for TPM and one for AOTC. In TPM, the entire point of the story so far is to get to Coruscant to reveal what the Trade Federation is up to to the Senate, so the Republic can save the day. But we learn here that the Trade Federation has a significant hold over the Senate, which leads to a vote of no confidence which is super important for Palpatine (and the probably the most dynamic event that can happen in politics). Nevertheless, the heroes must handle the problem with the Senate’s help.
Similarly, the only political scene in AOTC is pivotal to the plot. Should the Republic war with the Separatists? This is built up throughout the story and once it happens is very quick and to the point: Jar Jar says let’s get the Chancellor supreme powers, and the other Senators vote yes.
And then what? Palpatine declaring the Republic now an Empire? That barely counts as politics. The PT’s politics aren’t epic by any means, but they also aren’t the evil people tend to blame them as. The real issue with those movies was its characters and weird plot structure.