There has never been a Prime Minister of the RNE that hasn't been a member of the PSDP. Ted Kennedy, who was Prime Minister from 1986 until his death in 2009, was a founding member of the PSDP. The current Prime Minister is John Kerry, also of the PSDP. It is seen as a center-left party, but significantly further left than the Socialist Party of the United States, as a result of the left-wing politics of the Republic of New England.