Short answer. Yes. A sentence of prision mayor carries two accessory penalties at once: the penalty of prision mayor shall carry with it that of temporary absolute disqualification and that of perpetual special disqualification from the right of suffrage — the first covers public office, the second covers voting.
What the law says
The penalty of prision mayor shall carry with it that of temporary absolute disqualification and that of perpetual special disqualification from the right of suffrage
Revised Penal Code, Article 42 — Accessories Of Prision Mayor. Read the full provision →
Two separate accessory penalties, not one
The provision attaches two distinct accessory penalties to a sentence of prision mayor: temporary absolute disqualification and perpetual special disqualification from the right of suffrage. These are not the same thing described twice — one addresses eligibility for public office and related civil rights, the other specifically addresses the right to vote. A conviction carrying prision mayor as its principal penalty triggers both of these accessory penalties automatically by operation of law, without the court needing to impose either one separately or specifically in the sentence itself.
Why 'temporary absolute' covers public office specifically
The disqualification tied to public office is described as absolute, meaning it reaches broadly rather than being limited to one narrow right, and temporary, meaning it does not last forever the way the suffrage disqualification does. That combination — broad in scope but limited in duration — is what distinguishes it clearly from the separate, narrower, but permanent disqualification the same sentence attaches to voting instead.
Why the suffrage disqualification is treated differently
The right-to-vote disqualification is labeled perpetual and special — perpetual because, unlike the public-office disqualification, it does not expire on its own, and special because it is confined specifically to the single right of suffrage rather than covering the much broader range of civil and political rights the office-related disqualification actually touches. The two accessory penalties are built on genuinely different logic even though both arise from that very same underlying sentence of prision mayor.
These accessory penalties can survive a pardon of the main sentence
The provision adds an important qualification: these disqualifications continue although pardoned as to the principal penalty, unless the same shall have been expressly remitted in the pardon. A pardon that wipes out the prision mayor sentence itself does not automatically wipe out these accessory disqualifications too — they persist unless the pardon specifically and expressly says otherwise, which is worth knowing if you are relying on a pardon of the principal sentence to restore your eligibility for public office or your right to vote — check the pardon's own wording carefully.