Fully 61 percent of Poles in an August survey run by the CBOS pollster said President Andrzej Duda was performing well, whereas 30 percent said he was doing badly. Duda's positive ratings went up by 3 percentage points from July. Duda's negative ratings decreased by 1 pp. The Sejm (lower house of parliament) was viewed positively by 37 percent of those surveyed and the Senate (upper house) was praised by 34 percent.