Future of 'Third Republic' defines run-off vote in Poland

Two presidential candidates reflect nation's 30 years of political division since fall of communism

It was an event - or rather two events - that marked the symbolic nadir of 30 years of rancorous political division in Poland since the fall of communism in 1989.

On Monday evening, Poland's conservative president, Andrzej Duda, and his challenger in Sunday's presidential election run-off, the liberal mayor of Warsaw, Rafa Trzaskowski, each held their own separate presidential debate" in different parts of the country, each boycotting the other's event and each fielding questions alone next to an unmanned podium bearing the name of their rival.