Ivan Ilchev, President of Bulgaria's oldest and most prestigious school, Sofia University, has criticized the students who earlier in the day occupied a lecture hall.

Commenting for the public radio, BNR, he said the protesters were a fraction of a relatively small group of students that is very sensitive to flaws of Bulgarian society, but they have chosen the wrong timing and the wrong location to show their outrage.

About 60 college students occupied Wednesday the university's largest lecture hall with demands for the resignation of the Socialist-led government.

According to Ilchev, the participants in the action were just a handful and were working against their own declaration for quality education as they were impedeing the studies of their colleagues.

He explained lectures could not be moved to another room, stressing a much larger number of students oppose the action.

"The above shows that the action is ill-prepared. I asked them why they did not react immediately after the decision of the Constitutional Court to reinstate shady media mogul Delyan Peevski as lawmaker. They remained quiet then; said they needed time to prepare. I told them: if you needed time to prepare, why did you go to the beach over the summer?" said Ilchev.

The students stated earlier they had his support grounding it on his keynote address for the opening of the school year.

"Some people are trying to convince you that you live in times when scoundrels prevail. Don't believe them. The time belongs to you, not to oligarchs, mafia and crooked politicians. But in order to really own the time, you must work for it," the President said then.