The leader of the parliamentary group on the left, Sahra Wagenknecht, SPIEGEL information will not come to the meeting of the party on the weekend in Bonn. The news agency dpa reported about it. She was ill, it said in party and faction.
Originally Wagenknecht should have talked on Friday evening at the party congress. At the heart of the party, it is currently under heavy pressure. Their remarks on migration policy and the founding of the collecting movement "getting up" are perceived by some leftists as a provocation. At the end of last year, Wagenknecht's opponents even thought about pushing them out of office.
In Bonn, the Left now wants to say goodbye to its program for the European elections. Co-leader Dietmar Bartsch speaks on Saturday morning.
A controversial sentence from the draft program, in which the EU had been described as "militaristic, undemocratic and neoliberal", had previously been defused. Nevertheless, critical discussions are to be expected on the attitude of the left to Europe. Party leader Katja Kipping said: "To deal critically with the mistakes of the European Union is the much greater declaration of love than simply ignoring it."