Poles have traveled from across the country to join dueling patriotic marches in Warsaw. The Sunday marches are being led by the two men vying for the presidency in a June 1 runoff election

By Barbara Erling, Kuba Stezycki and Fatos Bytyci WARSAW (Reuters) -Tens of thousands of people took the streets of Warsaw on Sunday to show support for rival candidates in next week's tightly-contested Polish presidential election that the government views as crucial to its efforts for democratic reform.

WARSAW: Tens of thousands of people rallied in central Warsaw on Sunday in rival demonstrations for the two candidates in Poland’s presidential election on June 1. Warsaw’s pro-EU mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, who is backed by Poland’s centrist government, will square off against nationalist historian Karol Nawrocki.