Le Onde Restaurant, located in the Elkins Park section of Cheltenham Township, hosted Bajram Begaj, the current president of Albania, on Sunday, May 25.

According to a Le Onde employee, President Begaj was in town to honor Le Onde’s chef Arthur, a fellow Albanian who recently won a prestigious culinary award.

“The chef used to be a famous in Albania, so they’re friends and know of each other,” she told Glenside Local. “The president also had some other appointments in the area.”

Begaj began a five-year term on July 24, 2022. A member of the Socialist Party and a medical doctor by training, his tenure has been marked by a commitment to enhancing Albania’s international relations and advancing Euro-Atlantic integration, according to The Tirana Times.

“I will always support and insist on cooperation between all political forces, in finding a common language, in finding ways, common paths, because in the end we are servants of the citizens and conflict is never a good servant,” President Begaj said in 2022. “The long and tiring transition, the crises produced internally or imported from abroad, the crises from our disagreements, from the inability to find a language and a common path, the crisis from irresponsibility, from corruption — all these have produced insecurity, injustice and exclusion.”

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Photos: Le Onde Restaurant, Wikipedia