In the "fast-track clash" that broke out at the National Assembly in Apr. 2019, People Power Party lawmaker Na Kyung-won, former Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn, and other current and former key figures of the People Power Party were sentenced to fines in the first trial.
The Criminal Agreement Division 11 of the Seoul Southern District Court (Presiding Judge Jang Chan) held a sentencing hearing in the afternoon for 26 former Liberty Korea Party (now People Power Party) officials, including lawmaker Na and former Prime Minister Hwang, who were indicted on charges including obstruction of special official duties.
The court sentenced lawmaker Na, who was the Liberty Korea Party floor leader at the time of the incident, to a total fine of 24 million won. Former Prime Minister Hwang, who was the party leader, was sentenced to a total fine of 19 million won. Song Eon-seog, the current People Power Party floor leader, was sentenced to a total fine of 11.5 million won.
Na and others are accused of occupying the meeting rooms of the Special Committee on Political Reform (Jeonggae Special Committee) and the Special Committee on Judicial Reform (Sagae Special Committee) in the main building of the National Assembly in Apr. 2019, and confining Chae Yi-bae, then a Bareunmirae Party lawmaker, in a lawmaker's office at the National Assembly Members' Office Building. Prosecutors indicted them in Jan. 2020.
At the time, the ruling and opposition parties were in fierce conflict over a revision to the Public Official Election Act introducing a mixed-member proportional representation system and a bill to establish the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO). When the ruling Democratic Party of Korea joined hands with minor opposition parties and sought to pass the two bills by designating them as fast-track (expedited agenda) items, Liberty Korea Party lawmakers occupied parts of the National Assembly, saying they would block it. In the process, the Liberty Korea Party and the Democratic Party physically clashed.
Earlier, prosecutors sought two years in prison for lawmaker Na, one year and six months for former Prime Minister Hwang, and 10 months in prison and a fine of 2 million won for lawmaker Song. For the late former lawmaker Jang Je-won, the court dismissed the indictment on Apr. of this year due to his death.