Tusk’s Coalition Closes Ranks After Polish Election Defeat

Poland’s ruling coalition sought to turn the page on the crisis sparked by the defeat of its candidate in presidential elections, vowing to rejuvenate the pro-European Union alliance halfway through the parliamentary term.

“The coalition is in good shape,” Deputy Prime Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, the leader of the Polish Peasants Party, told reporters Thursday following a meeting of leaders from the ruling alliance. “Emotions were high but we found common ground.”

Prime Minister Donald Tusk convened an emergency meeting after the electoral setback sparked tensions in the coalition with some lawmakers calling for the premier to go. Investors sold ...