The devastating double blow that Poland’s pro-European Prime Minister Donald Tusk has suffered this week could prove decisive for the survival of his wobbly coalition government. On Sunday, his centre-right nominee, the heavyweight mayor of Warsaw, was narrowly defeated by Karel Nawrocki, a little-known candidate of the Eurosceptic ultra-right Law and Justice (PiS) party in the country’s presidential election. On Monday, a vulnerable Tusk watched his coalition descend into open infighting, with disparate parties—some opposed to abortion, others endorsing same sex marriages, conservatives and leftwing radicals—baying for blood. Their patience has run out with the government’s lacklustre performance and see little reason to........

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