Text of the provision

Art. 42. Prision mayor-Its accessory penalties. -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 which the offender shall suffer although pardoned as to the principal penalty, unless the same shall have been expressly remitted in the pardon.

Revised Penal Code of the Philippines, Act No. 3815, as amended. Reproduced in full from the official enactment and verified against the LawPhil and ChanRobles renderings.

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Anyone sentenced to prision mayor also automatically suffers temporary absolute disqualification and perpetual special disqualification from the right of suffrage. The loss of the vote survives even a pardon of the main sentence unless the pardon expressly remits it.

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