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WASHINGTON, (Reuters) by  David Lawder - Lebanon has withdrawn its nomination of Ziad Alexandre Hayek to run for World Bank president, but the government privatization official said he is trying to persuade board members of the multilateral development lender to renominate him. Hayek told Reuters on Monday that he received a formal notification from Lebanon's finance ministry that his nomination was rescinded, two weeks after he announced his candidacy on Twitter. He said the decision was due to pressure from other governments, which he declined to name. An official with Lebanon's finance ministry confirmed that the nomination had been withdrawn before it was registered by the World Bank's nominating committee, adding: "there was no American pressure or other (pressure)." The same official said some parts of the Lebanese government which includes nearly all of Lebanon's rival political factions - wanted to nominate Hayek, but others did not. In the end, the finance ministry decided not to proceed with a candidate viewed as having little chance of winning, the official said. The withdrawal leaves U.S. Treasury Undersecretary for International Affairs David Malpass as the sole announced candidate to lead the World Bank with about 10 days to go before the nomination period closes on March 14. A World Bank spokesman declined to comment on the decision. The United States, which wields the most voting power on the World Bank's board, has chosen every leader of the institution since it began operations in 1946. Challengers from Nigeria and Colombia emerged in 2012 under a new open nomination process when the U.S. nominee, Jim Yong Kim, was first elected as World Bank president. Kim resigned in January to join a private infrastructure fund