ELENA BUSTEA, IN "PORTRAIT OF EXCELLENCE": I WAS AT MOST 10 YEARS OLD WHEN I TOLD MY FAMILY THAT I WANTED TO BE A LAWYER. THE PROFESSION HAS GIVEN ME THE GREATEST SATISFACTION IN LIFE VIDEO

TVR Cultural brought them, on November 25, Mihaela Olaru's dialogue with lawyer Elena Bustea, arbitrator at the International Court of Arbitration attached to the Court of Commerce and Industry of Romania, recorded in the "Portrait of Excellence" show.

"She is an emblematic personality of the Romanian lawyer, a landmark of our times, a lawyer with grace and an oratorical talent that you rarely meet, she is the president of the "Association Centrul Avocatilor Mediatorii", a member of the Executive Committee of the National Committee of the International Union of Lawyers for Romania Paris 1927, insolvency practitioner, arbitrator at the International Court of Arbitration attached to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania, evaluator and vice-president of the National Union of Mediators from Romania, honorary consul of the Republic of Ecuador in Romania – the story behind a lawyer aristocrat ", is the presentation that Mihaela Olaru, host of the show "Portret de excellence", gives to her guest, lawyer Elena Bustea.

Bustea told Mihaela Olaru that " the profession gave me the greatest satisfaction in life ." I am blessed because God gave me this chance to be able to enter this profession and to be able to do it with this passion that I have shared all my life. And now, after so many years, when I'm in the gym and have to plead, I have the same emotions as at the beginning. (...) After 1989, we lawyers had to reinvent ourselves. A great professional satisfaction was when the opposing party, who had lost the case in front of me, asked me after a few years to represent them in another case".

At the same time, the lawyer Elena Bustea told, in "Portrait of excellence", also about the history of her family and about the hardships she went through under the communist regime.

" I come from an Aromanian family that comes from the Pindus mountains. I proudly say that these mountains are in my DNA. My family was persecuted, had to leave northern Greece and settled in Durostor county, in Quadrilater. When the population exchange took place, my family had to leave again and settled in Bucharest.

I was no more than 10 years old when I told my family that I wanted to be a lawyer. I never wanted to be anything other than a lawyer . I had the chance to have a mentor in my family, my father's brother, the lawyer Gheorghe Carșeli , who was captivating, full of grace, handsome like General Fuscus, an aristocratic Aromanian, an exceptional lawyer, who had the misfortune that the roller of history He puts him out of the profession when they have all been purged. I was deeply impressed by his personality, by his knowledge of books.

I was very lucky, my steps were guided and I think that Divinity worked here when I became the intern of the great lawyer Ion Pora and later I was able to work with his lordship. It was a providential meeting. That's when I saw what lawyering means at a very high level.

As hard as it was for the parents with all the purges , with being taken out of the house in the middle of the night, with my father who disappeared for two years, with the Security car on the street, as happy as our childhood was, and the parents were for two new icons . We were three brothers, I have a special relationship with my sister, unfortunately my brother is no longer among us".