Bulgarian experts have joined calls for holding early general elections in May 2014, when the country will vote for members of European parliament.

“Elections in May 2014 seems to be the most plausible scenario. But this time we should be very careful whom we vote for,” Mihail Konstantinov, a mathematician and former head of state-owned IT company Information Services, commented on Monday.

He slammed the current parliament, calling it a circus and a real disgrace.

“Bulgaria’s current parliament was conceived in sin and it lives in sin.”

At the end of last month Bulgaria’s former Socialist president Georgi Parvanov strongly advised against holding early general elections before May 2014.

“Holding elections before May 2014 will bring about a real disaster in Bulgaria. Apart from that we should always think about what the eventual line-up of the caretaker government would be,” he said.

Another issue is whether the general and European Parliament elections will be held together, on one and the same day, it is up to the protestors and institutions to decide that.

Anti-government protests have been continuing outside Bulgaria’s parliament for more than a month.

The series of rallies was triggered by the appointment of notorious media mogul Delyan Peevski as Chair of the State Agency for National Security (DANS) back on June 14, but the protesters

were not appeased by the subsequent cancellation of the decision and went on to demand the resignation of the Socialist-led cabinet over ties with oligarchs.

Former Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has demanded the immediate resignation of the country’s embattled cabinet and new snap polls.

Borisov and his center-right government stepped down amid mass protests back in February.

Following weeks without a government, on March 13 Bulgaria's President Rosen Plevneliev announced a caretaker cabinet.

The administration was headed by a diplomat, Marin Raikov, who organized early elections.

Elections were not held for three months, after which in May vote Borisov emerged with a narrow lead.

However opposition parties refused to share power with him and eventually patched together their own coalition.

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