Pro-democracy reformers said that they made progress in getting loyalists of ousted Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to agree to early elections in Serbia but fell short early on Saturday of a final deal. "We are continuing talks," Vladan Batic, a prominent backer of new Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica, told Reuters. Early elections would give Milosevic opponents a chance to take control of Serbia, the larger of the two republics in federal Yugoslavia, and press ahead with democratic reforms to undo his legacy of economic stagnation and autocratic rule. Milosevic's Socialists said they felt the discussions had been conducted in a correct manner. "The talks were held in a constructive atmosphere, they were extremely correct," said Zoran Andjelkovic, the new secretary general of the Socialists. But one of the reform leaders, Nebojsa Covic, accused the Socialists of trying to thwart the currents of political change sweeping Yugoslavia. "The agreement with the Socialists was not reached because that party does not care about the agreement and stabilisation of the political situation in the country, and because the Socialists cannot make a deal with the Radicals," Covic said. He was referring to the Radical Party led by ultra-nationalist Vojislav Seselj, a sometime Socialist ally who is boycotting the talks. "They (the Socialists) are buying time, not understanding that their time has expired, just as their president Slobodan Milosevic did," Covic told the state-run Tanjug news agency. Bureau Report