Mark Rutte giving a speech in Amsterdam | Frank van Beek-Pool/Getty Images Mark Rutte: Leave if you don’t like it here 2 months before election, Dutch prime minister asks people to ‘act normal.’

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said people should leave the Netherlands if they reject the country’s values, in an advert published in Dutch newspapers.

In the advert, published just weeks before a general election on March 15, Rutte highlights the “significance of Dutch values.”

“Discomfort will increase if people misuse our freedom, especially since they came to this country to enjoy those freedoms … I understand that people think: if you reject our country fundamentally, I’d rather see you go. I have the same feeling. Act normal or leave,” he said.

He also asked people to work together to improve society, because “the Netherlands is a cool country.”

Rutte's liberal VVD party was in second place in an opinion poll published Sunday, after the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) led by Geert Wilders. According to the poll, the PVV would get 33 seats in the 150-seat parliament, and the VVD 24 seats.

The prime minister earlier this month said he would not join a coalition government with the PVV.