Sar Kheng | |
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ស ខេង | |
Minister of Interior | |
In office 3 February 1992 – 22 August 2023 | |
Prime Minister | Hun Sen Norodom Ranariddh Ung Huot |
Co-Minister | You Hockry (1993–2004) Norodom Sirivudh (2004–2006) |
Succeeded by | Sar Sokha |
Deputy Prime Minister of Cambodia | |
In office 3 February 1992 – 22 August 2023 | |
Prime Minister | Hun Sen Norodom Ranariddh Ung Huot |
Vice President of the Cambodian People's Party | |
Assumed office 20 June 2015 | |
President | Hun Sen |
Serving with | Say Chhum Tea Banh Men Sam An Hun Manet |
Preceded by | Hun Sen |
Majority Leader of the National Assembly | |
In office 22 January 2015 – 31 January 2017 | |
Prime Minister | Hun Sen |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Position abolished |
Member of Parliament for Battambang | |
Assumed office 14 June 1993 | |
Chairman of National Committee for Counter Trafficking in Person, Cambodia[1] | |
In office 2009 – 22 August 2023 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Prey Veng, Cambodia, French Indochina | 15 January 1951
Political party | Cambodian People's Party |
Spouse | Nhem Sakhan[2] |
Children | 3, including Sar Sokha |
Sar Kheng (Khmer: ស ខេង; born 15 January 1951) is a Cambodian politician. He is the vice president of the ruling Cambodian People's Party and served as Minister of the Interior and deputy prime minister from 1992 to 2023.[3] He also represents the province of Battambang in the Cambodian Parliament.[4] Kheng has been the Minister of the Interior since 1992. Until March 2006, he shared the position with FUNCINPEC party member You Hockry as co-Ministers of the Interior, but then became sole interior minister in a cabinet reshuffle as FUNCINPEC ended its coalition with the CPP. He left office as interior minister in 2023 and was succeeded by his son, Sar Sokha.