Gamal Mubarak is one of the main architects of a far reaching package of economic reform that helped Egypt post impressive economic growth rates over the past few years.
But the reform seems to only have widened the gap between the rich and poor and has failed to trickle down to most people, sparking a growing number of street protests over higher food prices and demands for better pay.
"We need to immediately start a second wave of reforms ... that are more ambitious and more daring. Much has been achieved but the goals are far greater," he said in an address at the party's annual conference.
"The concerns, problems of Egyptians and the need to raise their standard of living will remain and continue to be our main preoccupation and the pivotal part of our party's endeavors," he said.
In the five years ahead of the next parliamentary election in 2015, he said, the party needs to create more jobs, increase nonoil exports, nearly double the number of tourists coming every year and lift a million families out of poverty.
"They are huge challenges, but we have the confidence to tackle them," he said.
Under the influence of Gamal Mubarak's reform plan, Egypt's economy grew by an annual average of 7 percent for three years until the global financial meltdown in 2008 slowed growth, but it is still expected to increase by about 6 percent in the fiscal year ending in June 2011.
That rate, however, is still short of what is required to meet the demands of the nation's 80 million people, of whom around 40 percent live on or near the internationally accepted poverty line of $2 a day.
